Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studio, still gives a three-ring performance. In a story conference where he plays all the roles of scenes in the making, the bristle mustache suddenly twitches, and the face looks heavenward in horror. The jaw sags until the huge cigar droops from his lower lip like a wet sheet hanging from a tenement window. He leans back across the grand piano in his office. His voice becomes shrill and frightened. This is Zanuck impersonating a virgin in distress...
...peered down the hole in fright. He reassured her. But the police sent for a doctor and a priest. Oxygen was piped down the hole. Big floodlights were brought in; they threw a harsh, garish light over the scene and heated the air until the toiling cops were wet with sweat. At 8:30 there was a terrible interruption. A lighted cigarette was lowered down the well in a tin can; a few minutes after it reached the bottom there was an explosion-apparently caused by oxygen and seeping gasoline fumes. Fire filled the well...
Morton and his men were fighting a dogged, seldom dramatic battle of containment, with wet snow and rain adding to their difficulties. At suburban East Kildonan a 25-foot dike section burst, swamping 150 homes in a boiling wall of water ten feet high. But in most places the dikes-made of sodden burlap sandbags-were holding...
...side at St. James's Palace as heralds boomed out the tidings) before he realized that "the King business" had its drawbacks. Item: he could not even take a walk in the rain because it brought criticism from those who thought a king should not get his feet wet. There were more important drawbacks. He had his first foreboding interviews about Mrs. Simpson with the Archbishop of Canterbury and with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Windsor lifts the curtain on the intrigue-packed scenes when Baldwin tells Edward that the Empire will not stand for a marriage to Mrs. Simpson...
...pound freshman crew elected William T. Wetmore '53 of New York City and Mower Hall as captain. Wet-more rows number...