Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Records were broken. Thermometers recorded 107° in Dallas, 98° in Chicago, 100° in Kansas City, 98° in Detroit, 103° in Cleveland, 101.2° in Philadelphia, 100.4° in Boston and 96° in Hell, Mich. In New York, Weather Bureau employees, who work without benefit of air conditioning, noted a temperature of 100.8°. The New York Telephone Co. answered more than 190,000 calls from people who said...
...show and spend the night cooling off in upholstered seats. The wine steward of Washington's Mayflower Hotel noted a 300% increase in the sale of mint juleps and Tom Collinses. The Bluefield, W.Va. Chamber of Commerce, which likes to brag about its town's cool summer weather, did its best to compensate for the 92° weather by serving free lemonade...
Efforts to escape the weather were spectacular. Some sought refuge in bars. Highways were jammed by automobiles heading for beaches or mountains. But to perspiring millions there was only one good thing that could be said about the heat wave-it couldn't last forever...
Grandma's studio is her bedroom. It has a wood stove for winter weather. "I look out the window sometimes," she says, "to see the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene." She never paints from nature "because it's easier...
...Island with You (MGM) is a harmless little hot-weather cooler, filmed in a watery Technicolor haze. Sarongs are worn by the girls (Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse) and summer whites by the men (Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante). The story, all about the warmed-over infatuation of a Navy pilot for a movie star he met on a U.S.O. tour, was also meant to be air-conditioned, but it gets a bit humid. Swimmer Williams should not have been asked to impersonate a film actress, but in her aqua-ballets and posturings in a bathing suit, she is a fine sight...