hotweather

Once he allowed himself to be interviewed for the Herald, when from Mr. Rogers's yacht he had watched Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock go down to defeat; but this was a subject which appealed to him -- a kind of hotweather subject -- and he could be as light-minded about it as he chose.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Once he allowed himself to be interviewed for the Herald, when from Mr. Rogers's yacht he had watched Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock go down to defeat; but this was a subject which appealed to him -- a kind of hotweather subject -- and he could be as light-minded about it as he chose.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Lipton’s Shamrock go down to defeat; but this was a subject which appealed to him — a kind of hotweather subject — and he could be as light-minded about it as he chose.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Although it never saw its mother, or got any lessons from her, it goes after the buzzing hotweather-bugs, when August comes, and treats them exactly as she did.

Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903