Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the first-year men can not sign up for skating as a regular form of exercise, they may cut the sport they have signed up for on days when the weather permits and they prefer ice activities. This project was introduced as an experiment four years ago but had been dropped since then on account of the poor weather...
...remarkable tour de force, that particular example of what Mr. Benchley terms "unconscious exhibitionism". The weather was bitter cold and without that blithe victim of "divine afflatus" the period between halves would have seemed an unnecessary purgatory. But few there were who dreamed that the young man's romp would go down in history--as it has gone down in the Bookman. It was one of those inspired moments; the antique-hatted and cooncoated young gentleman might have expected notices from sports writers and columnists--but a real flesh and blood theatrical reviewer must have been beyond his wildest dreams...
...debit side may be listed: superabundance in cobbles in the streets, newsboys with Back Bay accents. Dudley Street surface cars, Friday afternoon audiences at the Symphony, the South Station, Mechanics Hall, old Boston ladies, old Boston gentlemen, hot weather, cold weather, and a tendency towards pompousness. One may add that there are also other debits. But after the assets are balanced with the liabilities . . . one has . . . one has a collection of opinions and sentiments...
...Italy, the Augustinian canons and their servants on duty there last week watched a train of sleds zigzag its way up the pass from the Swiss side. Snow was deep; wind blistering. None, remarked the canons, but Americans with their quaint inquisitiveness would make such a trip in such weather. Forthwith they sent servants to heat liquids. Other servants they dispatched to assemble the St. Bernard dogs, those great spaniels bred to retrieve humans from the Alpine snows just as Newfoundland dogs, another breed of spaniel, retrieve humans from waters. The canons rarely accompany the dogs on rescues. They...
Good old fashioned California Christmas weather beamed on the bunkers as the Pacific winter golf season began at San Diego. Leo Diegel from far away, frozen White Plains, N. Y., holed a 50 foot putt on the home green to win the first round with 67, five under par. When famed professionals from all over U. S. had completed 54 holes Diegel's score was still low, 214. For this the San Diego Country Club stuffed $1,000 in his Christmas stocking...