Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become editor 30 years previous, he would have edited one of the most influential sheets in the U. S. He would have edited a sheet read religiously by the tightlipped, tightmouthed New England bourgeoisie, by politicians, statesmen, presidents. He would have lifted from his presses each evening the first wet copy of a lankcolumned, pinheadlined journal, which, even in the moment of its moist birth seemed austere enough to belong in the files of a Boston library; where, when he actually became editor, 30-year-old copies reposed as valuable records...
...hours, 24 minutes longer than George Michel, the plump, record-holding French baker. Thomas W. Burgess, bronzed Nestor of English natation, and second- man to swim the Channel (in 1911), clapped his pupil heartily on a greasy shoulder. Evelyn Pettipiere, Mr. Temme's fiancee, rushed forward for a wet embrace...
...mountain pueblo named Boaco, in the department of Chontales, Nicaragua. This Central American stronghold is where General Jose Maria Moncada, chief of the Liberal forces, delivered his arms to my marines on May 13. In wet weather it is reached by horse or pack-mule only. Occasionally an aeroplane drops mail to us. However the mail reaches us, the periodical which I first open is TIME, short, snappy, to the point, a mental feast. Critics to the contrary notwithstanding. I still persist in reading TIME from p. 1 to the bitter end. Please do not permit our great friend...
Attended a girls' school and deliberately walked in puddles to get his feet wet and be sent home...
Sharkey, the talkative, was known to be tender of stomach. Dempsey, crouched and persistent, concentrated his hammering on Sharkey's ribs and navel. Sharkey's jabs and swings rained on Dempsey's grimly contorted face, opening wet cuts under both eyes, abrading the truculent...