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Movies too, especially when it’s hot as blazes outside and the coolest remedy is to stay at home with a film and a pitcher of cold lemonade.

It was “hot as blazes in the summer,” and cold in the winter, remembers Vernon Ross, who was baptized there in 1939.

It was only April, but it was already hot as blazes.

It was hot as blazes outside—humid, too, and inside our house, all the air conditioners hummed in the windows.

It was hot as blazes, as it is wont to be in Charlottesville in August.