Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City was mechanization. The Caterpillar powerplant with hydraulic ice cream dipper was part of the sidewalk force. Special emphasis was laid on clearing the sidewalks by Cambridge Mayor, Eddie J. Sullivan, so that local police could issue tickets for longstanding meter violations without getting their hip-boots wet. Asked if the Police would tag buried cars, the Mayor snapped, "If we can find them, we'll tag them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves...
...Pudding shows: "Diane's Debut" in 1910, "The Crystal Gazer" in 1911, and "Below Zero" in 1912. "Diana's Debut", the most popular of the three, was a heavy-handed satire on Boston Society. The big song in the play had a famous line, "At Somerset, things were rather wet...
...This is Richard-lame leg, hunchback, "weerish withered arme" and all-and he is a frightening man indeed. A minute later the moviegoer is alone with the monster. "Why," he confides, as the thin lip writhes with an impish humor, "I can smile, and murder while I smile / . . . And wet my cheeks with artificial tears . . . / Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? / Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down...
...Others felt that either Senator Bridges or the lack of a decent winter holiday had something to do with the general discomfort. Many, however, seemed to think that Mayor Sullivan might have provided snowplows. At any rate, pussy willows are being sold along Mass. Ave., and the trial by wet ankles is obviously over. As galoshes are put away for another occasion, a few may be willing to agree with the traditional Cambridge snow policy, set by Mayor Quinn many years ago. "God brought it," said the good mayor. "Let God take it away...
...humor must have come into play the day he was watching his family make patterns with the sand on a Long Island beach. That was when he conceived the idea for his sand-sculpturing technique. Now his most important sculpture is made by modeling details in reverse patterns in wet sand and then filling these molds with concrete or plaster of paris. The result is a kind of bas-relief...