Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death, a morning newspaper* consented to halt its presses and print a single copy of a special edition, called by the British press "the bedside edition," wherein was described his "great improvement" and the certainty of his early convalescence?but all in vain; the "bedside edition" was hardly wet with its ink before Lord Curzon had expired. It was a considerate and sporting gesture...
...headlines announce every morning that Yale swimmers have gained another large wet victory in some foreign tank. Dempsey is reported to have challenged almost everybody from Thomas Edison to Andrew Gump. Mrs. Dempsey states that she is still very happy and still unbattered. West Somerville boys, working out in Southern training camps, are said to be displacing Cobb and Ruth. The Boston baseball management says definitely for the first time that both teams will unquestionably win pennants. James James Carbunkle is heralded as the new basketball captain of Siwash, having served faithfully on the team some eight or ten years...
Oscar Hammerstein, helped by the weather, persuaded Tetrazzini to leave London and come to Manhattan in 1908. It was a wet week in London. Tetrazzini was depressed, idle. Hammerstein had tea with her. She returned with him, sang three successful seasons at the Manhattan Opera House, Manhattan, for which she received $2,500 a performance. She afterwards sang with the Metropolitan, the Boston Opera Company- "gala seasons" all. Her last U. S. appearance was in Trenton in May, 1921- a concert with which she ended a prolonged tour. Since, she has sung occasionally here and there, but for the most...
Conclusion:"Never mind about me. Stand by the Church." For an hour afterwards, the people, eyes wet, shook hands with their preacher...
...Indian mutiny (1857) and again in the World War, when they fought side by side with the Canadian Highlanders and the British Guards. A feature of their equipment was the kukri-a small double-edged, curved knife. According to tradition, the kukri must be drawn only to be wet with human blood. Thus, when the Gurkhas drew their kukris to show them to their British comrades, they always nicked themselves and allowed a few drops of blood to drip on to the knife before returning it to its scabbard...