Word: moist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that most notoriously moist common wealth, New York State, the Drys in the Assembly last week attempted to pass a State prohibition enforcement act. The Wets tipped it upside down by adding in committee a rider making it applicable only to liquor of more than 6% alcoholic content. Later the Assembly killed the whole measure...
When the speech was over the Marine Band, never more appropriately, struck up "Hail to the Chief." The President said "Goodbye" to Mr. Coolidge, who edged off to catch his train home. A great many people followed Mr. Coolidge, but many more remained to offer moist hands to the President and first lady before they could enter their open automobile for the drive back to the White House...
...friends regard him as Moist, if not Wet. To jack up the saggine morale of the Navy will be a man-sized job for him, which he will doubtless undertake with his usual quiet determination. He may be a yes-man to the White House occupant but to the admirals who flock around every Navy chief with selfish advice and suggestions he will most likely listen patiently and then, a seadog himself, bark...
...with benches behind them. They are not boxes, really, because they have no covers? They are eminently uncomfortable places. When the wind blows, as it frequently does, the occupants of the press seats get it all; when it rains, they rapidly become what Mr. Mantalini called "demn'd damp, moist, unpleasant bodies...
...dusky, lustrous eyes of Roman citizens grew large and moist with awe, last week, when a Papal medal as big as a smallish soup plate was borne pompously across the "Eternal City...