Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heights. Yet now, with the advent of the vernal release, he feels strange stirrings deep within him. He clamps his unruly heart with all the force of the elaborate apparatus of inner standard given him by Professor Babbitt. But the bolts have rusted and weakened in the mists and damp from the Charles. The Vagabond's spirit heaves and writhes; something snaps, and he is free...
...printing press, Woodcutter Leighton uses the back of an old teaspoon, worn so thin that she can feel through it, to rub the damp paper on the inked block. There are other methods. Woodcutter Howard Heath (see cut), well known in New York art marts for his flower prints, prefers a little rubber roller...
...Eagels, tries to justify the ways of Heroine Sadie Thompson to Man. Director Lewis Milestone has made semi-respectable, unexciting, the old sure-fire melodrama. Of the hot Pacific island where the rain monotonously rains and the characters get crescendo jitters, Milestone gets no illusion. The characters are not damp to the skin. Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks. The food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy...
...possibly be harder for him to defeat. Alfred Emanuel Smith, pledged to Repeal, would be far stronger than in 1928 because of economic conditions but it was unlikely that he could win out over the Republican nominee. As the President figured it out alone in the White House, a damp G. O. P. against a dripping Democracy could probably hold enough of the Dry vote and win over sufficient moderate Wets to carry the election...
Contest. Politically as well as meteorologically the pre-convention atmosphere was cool and damp...