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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third act makes a sharp turn off Main Street. It is laid in a cemetery: time has passed, many townspeople have died. The dead sit rigidly on camp chairs, while close at hand a mass of huddled wet umbrellas evoke a funeral. The dead girl comes to join the other dead. But she still yearns for the living. Permitted to return among them, she sees how blindly they grope through life, comes back to the cemetery eager to forget. Living people, Wilder seems to say, miss most of experience; only the dead get down to essences. But this moral needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...what you do when you crash. You usually burn so I wrote this note . . . put it in my pocket hoping they would find it if it did not burn too. . . . I prayed plenty. I was going to put Him to work if I could. When we landed . . . I was wet with perspiration all over. . . . I could have gone up and kissed that pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: First Flight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Sliding over a wet course in 2:34, David Emerson '38, Captain of the ski team, won the annual University race yesterday over the Sherburn Trail at Pinkham Notch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Emerson Takes Open Ski Race | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...physical advantage the paramecium holds over the amoeba. But in the capable hands of Henry Fonda & Joan Bennett, top Wanger stars, and an able cast, / Met My Love A gain's invertebrate allegories, its academic ups & downs, its ten changing years and its sopping-wet windup are invariably diverting, variably brilliant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...with all those frightful orange and blue sunsets. After much experimenting, for which his color director, William A. Wellman, deserves great credit, he has produced in "Nothing Sacred" the most true-to-life film yet to appear. When Miss Lombard is draged out of the East River, she looks wet. When we see her with an ice-pack the morning after, our heart goes out to her. We liked her when her hair was gray and her face was gray and her clothes were gray; but we like her better...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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