Word: sodden
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...hour that evening the sodden delegates had sat through a memorial service to Franklin D. Roosevelt, only half aware of the ceremony's bad taste, bored by its dreariness. "We are here to honor the honored dead," rasped New York's Mayor O'Dwyer. "Won't you please act accordingly?" But neither Bill O'Dwyer's pleas, nor prayers, nor singing, nor oratory dented the delegates' torpor. The rumble of conversation continued to fill the air, only subsiding a little when Congresswoman Mary Norton presented the credentials committee's report...
...great Bobby Jones, 46 (now an Atlanta lawyer), playing his one tournament of the year. And there were such other old masters as chunky Gene Sarazen and lean Horton Smith, the putting master who won the first Masters' 14 years ago and sank impossible putts on rain-sodden greens to win the third...
...that wasn't fit for man, beast or cross-country racers. The temperature was 27°, and slushy snow covered the Michigan State course. Squishing in sodden shoes, 154 athletes last week slogged after the National Collegiate cross-country crown. After 3¾ miles, Defending Champ Quentin Brelsford of Ohio Wesleyan was 20 yards in front...
...show's producer (Larry Parks) has staked his life as collateral against a gangster's backing of the show. He plans to put on one of the most sodden of those productions whose success depends on a snarling contempt for any form of art higher than a Rockette's hip joint. Terpsichore nags him into trying the only thing worse: really bad "Art." Played her way, the show flops in Philadelphia. Played his way, it is a smash hit in New York. At this point Terpsichore is reluctant about returning to heaven; she has, of course, fallen...
...will find it not at all difficult to share his disgust on realizing that his life, and the programs the country listens to, are shaped by the whims of a tyrant-sponsor. This churl is delineated expertly, if a touch too silkily, by Sidney Greenstreet. And Adolph Menjou's sodden-drunk recital of the way he got ahead by giving a friend and associate the shaft, is strong, frightening acting. In fact, for a movie presumably depending on the title and the names Kerr and Gable for its impact, the casting is excellent and expensive all down the line...