“The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.”
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 127
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“Hot and cold, and moist and dry.”
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry", John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book ii, line 898.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
As quoted and paraphrased in "The Scoreboard" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bkEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=000EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4731,2918286 by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Friday, June 10, 1955), p. 30
Baseball-related, <big><big>1950s</big></big>, <big>1955</big>
Context: "I no play so gut yet," the Puerto Rican star tried to explain yesterday. "Me like hot weather, veree hot. I no run fast cold weather. No get warm in cold. No get warm, no play gut. You see." Clemente likes Forbes Field and Connie Mack Stadium the best of all the parks he's played in but has a strong dislike for Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds because of the crazy bounces the balls take as they ricochet off the walls.
“His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.”
Source: Persuasion
“Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI "The Directions of the Streets with Remarks on the Winds" Sec. 1
“It seems to me that the argument of the defendant's counsel blows hot and cold at the same time.”
L'Anson v. Stuart (1787), 1 T. R. 753. Compare: ". . . . This would be blowing hot and cold". Lawrence, J., Berkeley Peerage Case (1811), 4 Camp. 412; "Hot and cold were in one body fixt; And soft with hard, and light with heavy mixt", Dryden.
“Alltami (n.)
The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.”
Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff