Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that they are glad to be together again by burlesquing an old-fashioned cinema situation. Keating as the villain pretends to usher her into his mountain hunting lodge, offer her a drink. Williams as the innocent young girl pretends to go behind a screen, take off her wet clothes, put on her dressing gown. She enacts a mock defense of her chastity until Keating embraces her in a final kiss that audiences are expected to believe is suddenly genuine, profoundly felt...
...first time last week the public could view the manuscripts and cough its head off without danger of damage. To the Public Library under armed guard were moved 150 of the Morgan treasures to be placed in cloth-lined cases, each with a wet sponge in a little dish to keep the vellum leaves from cracking...
...Virginia ancestry, was discovered at Princeton by Mr. Morgan's Cousin Junius when the Morgan Library was building, and has been a fixture in the Morgan household ever since. Librarians all over the world respect her knowledge. Working nervously on the present exhibition since June, when the last wet sponge and special detective was in place last week Librarian Greene took to her bed in collapse...
...alcohol by weight". It is further obvious that such a special license may be issued only if Cambridge votes to permit all forms of liquor or if it votes to issue licenses for the sale of malt beverages and wines. It is probable that Cambridge will go overwhelmingly wet, even to the extent of allowing the tavern, since only a few of the voters living here for a long time, can remember the old saloons which were banned in this town in 1887. The result will be known on December 19 when Cambridge will hold a referendum on the subject...
...York champagne men, distributors, restaurateurs, hotelmen, bootleggers. There were realtors, hairdressers and elevator boys, all wild-eyed over their ''slices" in this or that liquor syndicate. In London and Glasgow, astute liquor brokers were selling "brands ' on which the printer's ink was still wet. All was hurly-burly in the rush for retail, wholesale and importing licenses and quotas. Broken Axles. Under the eyes of a platoon of U. S. revenue agents, a caravan of 100 trucks clattered through the still streets of Philadelphia one night last week, shuttling 50,000 cases of gin across...