Word: soddenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leni's fans in the Berlin courtroom dabbed at their eyes with handkerchiefs as crumpled and sodden as that which 44-year-old Leni herself had twisted and tormented on the witness stand. "Children, children," she cautioned the photographers crowding around her when the trial was done, "save your film. I've only one wish now-to be let alone...
Captain Kent begins dropping his ethical ballast well before he reaches combat. The first value to go is fidelity. Kent loves the wife he left in England and has told himself he will be faithful to her. But the night comes when, sodden with gin and boredom, he seduces a Eurasian girl, mistaking her gasps of pain for pleasure. Afterwards, he loathes himself and the girl...
...hours-complete with such immortal lines as: "[Isabella] arose from the couch whereon she had been carelessly thrown . . ." He could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This was a sore point among his mistresses and his wives; he married at least six, in various cities, and sometimes...
...Rescue. In the early afternoon, with the storm still rising and his ship sodden under his feet, Captain Carlsen sent an SOS: ENCOUNTERING SEVERE HURRICANE . . . SITUATION GRAVE . . . HAVE 30 DEGREE LIST AND JUST DRIFTING . . . At nightfall things got worse; the pig iron in the holds shifted and the ship rolled to port again as if she were going completely over. She hung, listing now at 60 degrees; at times the deck was almost perpendicular. The captain clawed his way among his ten passengers (five women, a boy, four men) with a bottle of brandy, reassured them, had them covered with...
Stripes & Bars. But he was wide awake and watchful the following day when he inspected the tragic destruction in the Armourdale, Argentine and Central Industrial districts of Kansas City, Kans. still sodden and stinking from the silt and wreckage of July's flood. Later, with Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith, he talked over ways & means of providing more federal aid for thousands of homeless and impoverished flood victims. Then, before the Independence whisked him back to Washington, he was off to the dedication of a new armory in Kansas City, where he dropped a fascinating footnote...