Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fellow magicians insistently preached: that no "spirit manifestation" existed that they could not duplicate by plain trickery. They showed how clammy "spirit hands" (that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate was that of a "baby" which, in a dim light, a famous woman medium...
Until this year, the '53 campaign was regarded as the quickest since the war, but even they enlisted monkeys, a cheerleading squad, and a blaring record machine for the fight. One Yardling got dressed up as Superman and single-handed, beat off the barrage of rolls and wet lettuce that greeted his entrance into the dining hall...
...year-old Richard Whitelaw, hauled into court on a charge of public intoxication, explained what it was that drove him to drink: "My doctor told me if I drank whisky it would kill me. So I bought a bottle and went out to prove that he was all wet. But the way I feel, he was half right...
...businessman who wet a finger to the economic wind last week felt a good deal of hot air blowing from all directions...
...shakes a metaphor like a wet dog shaking himself dry. A man is broken "on the wheel of a dream"; the night wind passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent...