Word: zephyr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conditions on South Carolina plantations are as Mrs. Peterkin paints them, and above that comes the question of whether or not such conditions should be recognized and discussed. "If you know South Carolina," chuckled the Cherokee Times, "You may surmise that the storm will be more than a zephyr...
...Baptist Church. The funeral throng was mixed from the brave days of old; tottering gray figures forgotten by the sport world, women who remembered, fighters he had knocked senseless. A newspaperman reported James J. Corbett, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, as having said, kneeling beside the casket: "The zephyr of all ring-time! The only one that ever hit him was Death...
...discountenanced the Curtis-for-President clubs. Until last fortnight's developments, when Senator Fess of Ohio was scolded at the White House for excessive enthusiasm (TIME, Oct. 31), Senator Curtis was among those imperturbables who thought President Coolidge could be persuaded to "choose" again. Either some Potomac zephyr had now whispered that no such persuasion was possible or Senator Curtis could no longer resist temptation. In any case, the forthrightness with which he declared himself did credit to his intentions if not to his sagacity...
...Premier George stuck his finger in his mouth and held it up in the air to decide which way the political wind was blowing. He decided that a gentle zephyr was blowing, favorable to Liberalism, so he virtually gave notice to the British public, probably with the counsel of his titular chief, ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith, that a general election was to be held at the end of the year...
Spring, as Botticelli so aptly put it, comes all in a lump. It is heralded by many things, by the zephyr, by the crocus, by false alarms, by the appearance of checkered golf hose, by a certain fever. Not least is it characterized by what might be called the de-hibernation of athletics...