Word: moistness
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...Esmeralda?that the orchestra played, apache dance of children's parties, to whose rhythm plump little girls have danced with skinny little boys through generations of summer afternoons while pink palms grew moist and socks crept slowly down to form a wad at the heels of minute dancing slippers? Not at all. The dance was the odious "Charleston," condemned by all dancing masters last year, now adopted in deference to popular taste, after vast modifications. No flourish of trumpets attends its innocent pattern. Dancing masters stand up straight; they do not lift their toes from the floor, or walked pigeontoed...
...imperious porticos of George Washington's house in Virginia. In front of it, as the week went on, a thousand horses paraded, galloped, caracoled ? black and grey, hunter and hackney, carriage-horse and teamster. There were innumerable classes ; many times the judges clipped a blue rosette to a moist cheek-strap, many times a red, but only a few of the thousand that put their hoofs down so neatly into the tanbark ever came to wear one of those rosettes, and those few often. Notable in that thin company were...
Thereupon, Mr. Hill clapped his hands and rejoiced. In Washington he aims to belong to the best social clique; at home, he aims to satisfy a moist constituency. For four years, according to his own statement, he has been trying to obtain a ruling on the maximum percentage of alcohol which is allowable under the Volstead Act according to a section which permits the manufacture of "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices." He declared himself dissatisfied with the answers he received from the Prohibition Enforcement Unit. In September, a year ago, he notified Prohibition officials that he was about...
...marked fall in the amount of sugar. This resembled nothing so much as what occurs when an overdose of insulin is given to lower the sugar in a diabetic. In the same way the appearance of the athletes after the race, with muscular twitching, extreme pallor, cold, moist skin and nervous irritability, was like that of a patient who has had an overdose of insulin. The scientists interpret the findings as indicating that the normal supply of the reserve blood sugar in the body is insufficient for such a prolonged and violent effort as a marathon race. They suggest that...
...recently established department of Physio-Therapy also comes under the direction of Mr. Fradd. This department takes care of all kinds of injuries from sprained ankles, synovitus, back strains, post-operative treatment of broken bones or appendicitis to the therapeutic means of dry or moist heat and massage, and the entire time of one instructor, Mr. Hans Neudorf, is required for the 15 to 25 men who daily come to him for treatment...