Word: moistness
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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...
...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...
...last week from active status in the Army. The pretty, 40-year-old Texan who ran the Women's Army Corps for three crowded years passed her colonel's eagles over to another woman. Then she embraced her staff, patted her carefully coiffed, blue-tinted hair and, moist-eyed, departed. Awaiting her in Houston, Tex., were her collection of Georgian silver and rare books, her private life with her two children and husband William Pettus Hobby, 67, the executive position she had left on her husband's Houston Post. Her reason for resigning: "My mission . . . has been...
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...