Word: moistly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's richest branch banking system was spending the winter as befitted his station-amid the surf-edged, palm-shaded luxury of the Breakers Hotel. Certain necessary trappings of state were in evidence-telegrams were delivered, long distance calls put through, and a fitting number of moist, pink vice presidents arrived to intone, "Yes, A.P.," at proper intervals...
Gauguin had gone far beyond the hurried lyricism of Claude Monet (whom he once collected), but he seldom banged the brasses like his fellow pioneer Van Gogh. His island landscapes had a muted harmony which reminded U.S. eyes of moist June afternoons seen through Polaroid sunglasses. The honey-colored people who lived in them possessed the gentle strength and warmth of his models, the wooden stiffness and empty-eyed thoughtfulness of their idols. Each painting was an elaborate, somber tapestry of colors that no other artist had yet dared to weave...
...Deanna's brilliant tactical lapse from her role of would-be dramatic actress: while visiting Laughton's bachelor apartment, she does a moist-eyed, full-throated, full-dress rendition of Danny...
...Cohesive Emotion. Intellectual Gangster Gilbert Nodiard believes that a well-run gang should have neither program nor ideas. But he is convinced that it must have some kind of "warm and moist emotion of complete complicity" to hold it together. The new German group, the Nazis, he reflects enviously, are bound by the moist emotion of homosexuality-which would never work in France, because French homosexuals are "not a very virile type...
From a $17-a-month room across the street from police headquarters, Arthur Fellig keeps a peeping eye on crowded, raucous, uncaring Manhattan. An untidy little man with a bulging stomach and moist brown eyes, he sleeps in his clothes, spends most of his nights cruising about, photographing the city. Newspaper readers see his pictures over the credit line Weegee (phonetic for Ouija-because he plays hunches on news and pictures...