Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portable on a truck. Of the early projection machines, the Lumières' was manifestly the best, but it was bad enough, as M. Le President and the diplomats agreed last week. The august audience saw a French train of 1895 chuff into a station, watched a gardener wet a fat man with a hose. Today Auguste Lumière is dead and Louis tinkers with cameras and projectors for "three dimensional cinema." In another 40 years Europe and the President of France may or may not again honor Lumière whose plastic cinema productions until recently required...
Professor Matthiessen's book on T. S. Eliot deserves great praise. It is wet,--as opposed to dry; general,--as opposed to particular; currently interesting,--as opposed to deadly dull...
...Methuselah" Methuselah's biography is characterized by brevity. He holds the all-time record for extraordinary longevity. "Elijah the Tishbite" Elijah, the Tishbite, Couldn't make the fish bite; 'Lowed he was using the wrong kind of bait. First tried a dry fly, then tried a wet fly, Then tried a worm and he caught six or eight...
Even persons full of romantic feeling for soft country-like walks will not mourn the passing of dirty shoes, wet feet, stubbed toes, and twisted ankles. Nor will they fail to appreciate during the winter the comfort of not having to step off the boards into the snow at each passing of a professor's wife...
...bristled the Senator. Welcoming cameramen in his sumptuous trailer, he led them through sleeping quarters and study to the galley, where he rolled up his sleeves, draped a towel around his middle, wiped out an obviously unused frying pan. After more posing outside in the rain, he changed his wet shirt, pulled out for Boston...