Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, in sweltering weather, the party crossed Missouri. Every time that the President appeared on the platform it was in the broiling sun, and he became badly sunburned-especially his lips. So in the afternoon at Kansas City he was obliged to stay indoors and cancel engagements for golf, a review of Boy Scouts and a visit to the War Veterans' Hospital. General Sawyer applied ice packs to the President's lip, so that he might speak in the evening, and Mrs. Harding reviewed the Boy Scouts. After dinner the President spoke on the railroad problem...
Europe is in the grip of wintry weather. At the end of the Paris season, when every one usually leaves the capital for the seaside in order to escape the heat, Parisiens are to be found dressed in topcoats and mufflers and Parisiennes are none too warm in furs...
...cold, wet, windy weather the President and Mme. Millerand, following a custom dating from 1874, opened officially la grande semaine. Despite the unusually inclement elements, large crowds assembled at the Auteuil race course...
...long argument to the Malay Peninsula. I should suggest that Dr. Frank Crane and H. L. Mencken he included in that party; then, to complete it, Ben Hecht, D. H. Lawrence and Justice Ford. What a happy time they would all have! Seriously, what could be better in warm weather like this, than a shipload of conveniently opposed viewpoints, outside the three-mile limit, with a fair breeze and a cool coral island as destination. I should like to describe the Tusitala. I think that it is a three-masted, square-rigged schooner. Is that right, my salty lads...
...still maintain it to be a masterpiece--we warned Mr. Morley to beware of too many "odds and ends" books. We sent up storm signals after reading Don Marquis' "Revolt of the Oyster" and F. P. A.'s "Overset". But he has gone right ahead regardless. Now he must weather it through as best he can. Of course we cannot raise much of a tempest, for our spirit has been broken since Heywood Broun pronounced our review of Scott Fitzgerald to be "sophomoric"; although that critic has yet to prove how one can be anything but sophomoric when in Fitzgerald...