Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bills and hunting bettors. ''Two hundred even on Princess". . . . "A hundred says Shue Fly daylights Princess" (meaning Shue Fly would win with daylight between her and her rival). It was so hot-110°-that men lined up in the shade of telephone poles and women held wet towels over their heads. By lunch time, even without pari-mutuel windows, $300,000 in bets was at stake...
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...
Tuesday night's rain left the Tech tennis courts too wet for play yesterday, forcing postponement of the scheduled Freshman match until tomorrow...
...Cold, Wet Rain. In Berlin, a cold, wet wind whipped the stinging rain into red banners planted every 50 feet along Unter den Linden, in the Russian sector. A parade of workers shuffled drearily past while loudspeakers blared. Most of them had to parade whether they liked it or not. "I remember," said one oldtimer, "when we were liable to be fired if we participated. Today you're likely to be fired...
Despite the rain, the wind, and the bitter cold, which have messed up playing conditions for at least three matches--sweating out 36 holes in the wet is no fun--some creditably low tallies have been registered. Tyke Wilcox, lead-off man in the links lineup, has climbed down dangerously close to par, with two 75s, a 76, and 79 to his credit. Ed Egan hit Williams with a 76, and Bill Rickenbacker, Sam Savidge, and Walter Robb have also broken into the wonderful 70s. These five, in addition to Bob Orr, Lincoln Kinnicutt, John Noble, Walt Butler, Joe Gordon...