Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Damp courts, making sure footing impossible, prevented the finals match of the University squash tournament to decide whether Dixon or Foster would hold the University title. The match however will be played Monday at 4.30 o'clock if the courts are in a dry condition...
...think: "Why, yes-I guess I will." You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known-heavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there...
...match of interest, but which showed very little brilliant tennis, was the finishing of the contest between Bondi and Roots, the former winning the third set yesterday 9-7. On Thursday each had gained a set, Bondi 12-10. Roots 6-4. Both players were hampered by the damp court, which caused much slipping. There can be little doubt that if Root's service were of higher calibre, he could have mastered the rather indifferent Bondi...
...where it had been stored since 1917, when the Pennells gave up their residence at Adelphi Terrace, London, on account of the War, and returned to the U. S. When Mrs. Pennell went over in 1922 to secure the goods, she found 30 out of 56 cases ruined by damp. The loss is estimated at several hundred thousand dollars and can never be replaced...
...encouragement the original syndicate of "six to nine" brewery-bootleggers grew to 15, and plans were laid for inducing 50 to join the criminal ring. But the bootleggers insisted it was time to begin operations. Finally he could put them off no longer. "That night the underworld rejoiced. A damp and fetid night it was ... a dreary, dismal night, hung on the edge of the calendar, where approaching Winter touches the garments of departing Autumn." At dawn laden trucks rolled out of the brewery gates?and prohibition agents snapped them up, arresting all the bootleggers. Weeks later a friend approached...