Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even the damp frigidity of a Cambridge winter cannot restrain the university from breaking forth into fresh excitement. The newest panic is that of red "circles". Opponents of the New Order are already punning violently upon "circle" and "square", and the League for the Purity of American Humor is reported to be stalking the impious punster. Certain irreverent youths have suggested that this is a sewing-circle plot to clothe unprotected females in red flannel. It is plain that by all those, amused or amusing, who will watch the growth of these clandestine, colorful clubs, the Young People's Socialist...
Beauty vanishes, beauty passes. Marble blackens in the earth; songs fade out of the minds of men; wind and damp loosen paint from canvas. Were this not so, there would be no poets, nor would there have been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was the fact that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were...
...those who remain in Cambridge, it offers the damp quietude of deserted dormitories, the monastic seclusion of Widener, and the culinary limpness of the Splendid. To those who seek the gayety of modern Babylons, it offers the front rows of the orchestra, from which the legendary business man is for once expelled, all-pervading music and no less pervading perfume, tete-a-tetes among the palms, tinkling of glasses and a toast. To those who return to fond firesides, the holiday offers an assortment of ties selected by solicitous aunts, the open adoration of young cousins, the damp and dutiful...
...interested to see a square hand-wrought spike over two feet long, which was used to hold up the gutter. All the nails found in the old boards were of the square hand forged variety. The boards were excellently preserved, in spite of 200 years of service in a damp climate...
...damp and clammy hand...