Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down among men to minister to their wants as a slavey but never to be wanted for herself. Tall, strong, beautifully made, fine-skinned, middleaged, immaculate, actual Almas are "Cook" or "Nurse" in thousands of U. S. households. They go to the Scandinavian Church religiously. Their eyes grow moist easily over members of "the family...
...warm and tender clasped him round the back of his neck; melted with desire and awe, he laid his hands upon the flesh of her upper arms., where the fine-grained skin over the bicepts came to his sense so heavenly cool; and upon his lips he felt the moist clinging of her kiss...
...last week seemed the Ontario Oasis which last fortnight (TIME, May 23) beckoned so invitingly to parched U. S. throats. Ontario had gone wet, Ontario was easily accessible, many a U. S. citizen planned Canadian weekends, magnificently moist...
Miss Virginia Wilson of Chicago, the only really proficient U. S. player present, was eliminated in the third round. Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume, strapping 19-year-old, who belongs in France but spends much time in the moist islands, took the championship away from Miss Dorothy Pearson of Tunbridge Wells, thus depriving England of her sole remaining British title...
From the point of view of the historian the picture has interest. More old gags stroll into this picture than enter the Repertory in three years. Nunally Johnson's satiric and interesting book has died in the moist hands of Hollywood tradition...