Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the young Indian Prince, Sir Hari Singh, was detected in intimate residence with a "Mrs-. Robinson" at Paris (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924, LAW) the world reverberated with the scandal of his trial under an alias, "Mr. A." Yet last week, sentimentalists from Benares to Boston scanned with moist-eyed approval a meagre despatch from India...
...daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, in 1902, and since then has been much in politics. What is concerned chiefly in the present situation is that in earlier days he voted against the 18th Amendment and for the Volstead Act. He has been rated nominally Dry, but moist in inclination...
...moist, murmurous Indian nights a British captain sat behind a bush with an elephant gun on his knees, waiting for Satan. On the other side of the bush a goat was tethered, for it was known that Satan had an appetite for goats. For seven years the Black God had padded on cat feet over 350 square miles of Western Garhwal; in that time he had killed 125 humans, snatching them in village streets, at the very doors of houses. Sixteen Indian shimkaris, paid by the government, had shot at him and missed; gun traps, arsenic, cyanide and prayer...
...Archbishop's finger inscribed the sign of the cross in Holy Water upon the brow of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, infant daughter of the Duke of York, only granddaughter of George V, Rex et Imperator. Above her royal head the Archbishop intoned the significance of the moist cross which he had just made "in token that hereafter she shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified...
...second hole in the golf course at Roehampton, England, is a bad hole for golfers who do not hit a long ball. On an April day, when the turf is moist and a bright wind is blowing off the tee-flag into your nose, the second hole is not an easy hole at all. Abe Mitchell knows this. Until that hole he had been doing very well in the Roehampton invitation-the first British professional tournament of the year. Rugged and jaunty after a hibernation at St. Albans (where, under the patronage of a wealthy enthusiast, he has been pursuing...