Word: wetness
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...afternoon of the fifth day, when two power-company linemen found him, he simply lay still and said, "Hello." They lifted the car off his mangled hand, wrapped him in their coats, dipped a canvas bucket into the creek and put its rough, wet edge to his lips. At the hospital in Oakland a doctor said he believed that the hand would not have to be amputated-just some fingers...
Boston-Cleveland, postponed, wet grounds...
From Sunset to Smear. Recently Maurice Sterne made the porch of his Provincetown cottage into a studio, and concentrated his attention on the sea out front. His new paintings were as salty and wet as the breakers, and they had the same compelling evanescence; each one seemed made of wind, water and light, ready to shatter and collapse in an instant...
...renaissance," he wrote, "took place about three years ago. ... I was too ill to work and was admiring my view from the porch; the incoming tide, the crimson and orange and gold of the sunset, the delicate nuances . . . when suddenly, nature ceased to be nature and became a wet painting. This sensation was so real, that when a sea gull suddenly soared across my vision, I exclaimed, 'The fool! Its lovely white wings will be smeared with paint...
...that he has learned to look at nature as if it were a "wet painting," Artist Sterne believes his best work lies ahead. He confesses he cannot see nature as art whenever he chooses: "I wish I could, but it just happens at moments. I try to catch those moments in my painting, as fast as I can. The old masters built paintings bit by bit, like houses. When they were finished building they knew it. Now I say the thing is finished when you finish what you have to say. Painting can be like building a campfire...