Word: moistness
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...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...
Mother (Belle Bennett). With Mothers' Day on the horizon, this moist film of a neglected mother was aptly released. Too much money inspires her son to dissipate his way into an elopement with a particularly degraded flapper, her husband into amours with a widow. A providential train wreck brings the prodigals, fortuitously unblemished, back home...
...dead frogs' muscles by contact with mixed metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc discs together, with moist cloths between and a wire connecting top and bottom discs-the first battery. Napoleon called him to Paris, sent him home laden with honors...