Word: damp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weight 28 pounds, height two feet four inches, precocious daughter of Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan, crawled and once even toddled about her royal nursery last week, examining her first birthday presents. Each of the hundreds of presents was a fish. Each fish was alive, wrapped carefully in damp perfumed moss and encased in a handsome and expensive birthday basket...
...presence of eels in waters blocked from the sea by high falls, and in land-locked ponds and lakes, is readily accounted for by the eel's ability to live a long time out of water, to travel considerable distances overland at night, through wet grass or during damp weather. The ancient Greeks, perplexed by eels' habits, considered them Jupiter's spawn...
...children of 40 ... footpads and submorons, Sir!") which was repelled and its leader, the Rev. Pudley, captured in his white skirts. Nor before Ruth and young Kendrick, within a few hours of meeting, walked in a panic summer midnight to a mad prothalamium of crickets; lay together in cool damp grass and took counsel of a Debussy moon . . . "List, sweet Moon," Ruth said, "where I learned my loving . . ." Ruth was an amateur of the living moment; she could quote poetry, swear tenderly. The eventualities aboard their pirate-schooner, the Mary Read, on Chesapeake bay; their chicken-stealing, arrest, abduction...
...bill had the effect of legalizing previous diversions of Great Lakes water by Chicago through its drainage canal out of Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. Other states bordering the Great Lakes are fighting this diversion tooth and nail in the courts. Their Congressmen have grown hoarse and damp-eyed relating piteous tales of the mud flats, grounded steamers and stricken trade resulting from fallen lake levels. The matter has been reported in "threatening" terms by Canadians to their Parliament...
Lenglen. On a damp court at the Racing Club in Paris, Suzanne Lenglen and Mary K. Browne, one-time U. S. champion, stroked the ball to and fro. They are good friends and sometimes, in the long pretty rallies, they smiled at each other as if to say, "The spectators like this sort of thing," or "Isn't it exciting!" When MIle. Lenglen considered that a rally had lasted long enough, she hit the ball a little harder than other woman in the world can hit it and relieved Miss Browne of further worry upon the point in question. Often...