Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witty, sophisticated story of life in the big city and points west. The lines in it are good with occasional touches of double meaning. The plot, while a trifle emotional, is not at all dripping; in fact in some touching scenes, where usual University audiences would laugh, there were moist eyes...
...Drys that he could see was the fact of the existing Prohibition laws. Much interested, Secretary Wilson so plainly expressed his approval of the Crusaders' "fair and constructive stand" on Temperance that next day Chicago newspapers drew the exaggerated conclusion that the Dry leader had become "moist." An echo of the Chicago debate, which marked a new and startlingly conciliatory phase in the hitherto
...view it from the point of view of a "Dry," but those who are "moist" or "Wet" can hardly disregard this aspect of the problem...
...burn is caused by dry heat of 140° F. or more, a scald by moist heat of 120° F. or more. Their injuries to flesh are identical...
...infant, who likewise lacks sweat glands. He is too young to go ducking himself. So she dowses him from time to time with scuppers of water. Neither child can sleep unless his night clothes and mattress are wet. They take daytime naps in their damp cellar, with moist sacks for pillows...