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...tuxedoed gentleman's arms as they float on a tire-raft on some cool body of water in the dusk. Both media peddle the same image--Babe, at once the child and the temptress, the pampered, beautiful, single woman who's rich enough to get her Halston all wet...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Moist Lips and Saucer Eyes | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

...most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan, as the strep-stricken Notre Dame halfback George Gipp, insisted on going to Illinois to play the Big Game against Northwestern. He made the do-or-die try, and sure enough-in a scene worth three wet handkerchiefs-he died soon afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Another Loss For the Gipper | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...Cabot '21, former Treasurer of Harvard, was in his office one day nearly 25 years ago when an elderly, disheveled man wearing an old coat drenched from a rainstorm outside walked in and sat down. Placing his briefcase on the floor, the intruder reached in and drew out his wet, muddy galoshes, and proceeded to drop them on the fine office rug. Before Cabot could say anything, the man, Arthur D. Stillman, reached in his briefcase once more and handed Cabot over $1 million worth of securities...

Author: By Thomas W. Janes, | Title: Learning to Live with the Squeeze | 3/26/1976 | See Source »

...stage to tear down the set. Author Philip LaZebnik stands out in the greenroom, partially because of his lanky height, partially because of the flock of people who rush to shake his hand. But each actor is surrounded by his own crowd; they smile in a daze, drained and wet. Some of them are on the verge of tears, others just eat popcorn, saying the "empty feeling" won't hit them until the sober Sunday morning after...

Author: By Mercedes A. Laing, | Title: BEHIND THE GREENROOM DOOR | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...fanny to stanch the flow Dog was snarlin' so I backed off slow Right into the arms of a slinky Arab-esque She planted a wet one on me you wouldn't see in burlesque...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I Got Bit by a Seeing-eye Dog" | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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