Word: soggyness
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After that, the teams settled down to a game which was sometimes brilliant, strategic football, sometimes a sort of exaggerated water-polo. Harvard's attack, with Jack Crickard running the ball three times out of four, got under way in the second period. Yale stopped it, as it had...
They did not have to wait that long. High up through the peaks and gullies of the Atlas Mountains swung the troop train of 14 cars. It had been raining for days. The roadbed was soggy, treacherous. Between Zelboun and Turenne the train jumped the rails, hurtled 250 feet down...
Object of many an urban stare was the rustic figure of Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma sipping gallons of black coffee, chewing soggy cigar butts. He grew pessimistic about getting the nomination for himself but insisted Oklahoma would vote for Roosevelt only "after frost?and frost down...
Ambassador Mellon, eschewing champagne, had been sipping all through dinner a rare and red French vintage. While he slowly sipped, an iced Statue of Liberty directly in front of him slowly grew soggy, squelched down and had to be carried out. The noble chairman, the Earl of Derby, jocularly observed...
Stocky, grinning Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks, famed publicity flyer, holder of nearly all informal city-to-city speed records in the U. S. and Europe, was not grinning one day last week when attendants at the Worcester, Mass, airport pulled him from beneath his crashed Travel Air "mystery plane" Texaco...