Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington speculation was based on three main theories: 1) that McGrath was left behind to justify charging the trip to the President's travel allowance, 2) that McGrath had roused the President's ire by intimating that he needed a political wet nurse, and 3) that the White House secretariat, which considers the National Committee a bunch of grubbing ward heelers, had persuaded the President to dump them. But whatever theory was correct, Republicans were surer than ever that the Democratic Party was falling apart...
...young people's sports program went off approximately as scheduled although tennis enthusiasts and divot diggers were able to play only irregularly. Grounds were wet on Tuesday, but the two soft-ball games gutted Soldiers Field although contestants, observers, and umpires were unable to agree on the winning teams...
Southern California has a "Mediterranean" climate (mild wet winters and hot dry summers) like ancient Greece. Therefore, enthusiasts claim, it will some time lead the world intellectually into a new Age of Pericles...
...most ambitious paintings in the new show was The Little Concert, a huge (9 by 12 ft.) monochrome which he had delivered still wet to the galleries. The London Times thought that it was "full of recklessly mingled details." In the portraits, every detail counted. The elaborate flowered background lent a heavy air of luxury to his portrait of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller. John had hesitated at first to accept that commission because of Fuller's part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. ("Would his share in the tragedy invalidate him as a subject for my brush...
Maybe somebody doped the Yale squad between the halves, because they surged out of the Field House an inspired group. The Crimson, whose dressing room was further afield, ducked out for the last half from under the caves of a nearby structure wet and bedraggled...