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Fiddling with the door lock on the Tudor-style mansion, Funk says it will rain today. The countryside hums with farm machinery and insects. Inside, the house smells, the way old houses tend to, moist and rich, as if someone had enclosed a creek bottom. Late summer motes settle gently on the esoteric acquisitions of the once famous George Ade. Here a Grecian urn, there a Waterford crystal punch bowl that, when flicked crisply with a fingernail, keeps ringing clearly long after the flicker has left the room...
...wettest springs ever. Swollen by heavy rain and snow runoff in the mountains, Utah's Great Salt Lake is projected to peak at 4,204 ft. above sea level in June, nearly a foot more than officials estimated only months ago. The culprit: a spate of unseasonably cool, moist weather that has prevented evaporation, which normally acts to counterbalance the effects of the runoff. Damages to property and roadway, now estimated at $20 million to $30 million, could go as high as $264 million this year. Salt water has begun to eat away at the dikes protecting the nine...
Whew! prayers were smoldering, eyes were moist, a first strike of prayers soared the the Kremlin. As the band played Onward, Christian Soldiers, the collected evangelicals leaped to their feet in awe, realizing that the state of their art had reached a new pinnacle. Of course, the fallout started minutes later, in the media...
Heatter's re-creation of this chocoholic's dream may not be "the ultimate chocolate cake," as claimed by her publisher, but the moist, dense, candy-like confection has one virtue: it is too rich to be addictive. The same could be said of Pearl's Southampton fruit cake, in which eleven varieties of fruit must be allowed to marinate for at least a week in cognac and Grand Marnier...
...split the felled tree with a wedge, then used a heavy blade called a froe to cut them into the proper lengths for furniture. Pieces of white hickory sat in pails of water on the floor; Carter explained that the wood will not harden if it is kept moist. Long curls of hickory bark, which Carter uses for the seats of chairs, hung on string nailed to the ceiling...