Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the musty dryness of a Canopic jar which once stood in a Pharaoh's tomb a London surgeon took the dead Pharaoh's dried and leather heart. He dissected it and marveled. His amazement he told to Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association, who last week retold: The heart showed a fatty degeneration and a hardening, and it was, wonderfully, the heart of that very Pharaoh Menephthah of whom the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened. . . . (Exodus...
...unsuccessful competitor in the Durant contest was Gifford Pinchot, dust-dry onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pinchot denounced the practice of allowing foreign diplomats to import liquor for diplomacy. Mr. Pinchot said also that only the influence of an ardently dry President can bring about national dryness. He considers President-Elect Hoover satisfactorily dry. He considers that Presidents Wilson, Harding & Coolidge were "apathetic...
Making certainty doubly certain that Dryness was, at least outwardly, more ascendant than ever, were the Congressional returns. As every one knows, few Congressmen vote as they drink. Outspokenly wet Senators are especially rare. Next year they will be rarer. The two wettest-Maryland's Bruce and New Jersey's Edwards-lost their seats. So did Rhode Island's Gerry, Delaware's Bayard. Missouri's vindictive Reed retires and Missouri's Roscoe C. Patterson will...
...Pennsylvania, and National Committeeman J. Henry Roraback of Connecticut. Though long potent in G. O. P. councils, all are now most inconspicuous in the Hoover movement with the exception of Senator Moses, who had to fight for the place he did get. If Hoover is elected with Republican Dryness a dominant issue, the Moses record as a Wet might even interfere with his inheriting from Senator Curtis the leadership...
What the Anti-Saloon League has done, the Association against the Prohibition Amendment seeks to undo. What the late Wayne B. Wheeler was to Dryness, Captain William H. Stayton is to Wetness. Captain Stayton, an ex-Navy man now in the shipping business at Baltimore, is less vocal than was Mr. Wheeler. But Captain Stayton has been working away "patiently" for eight years as the brain and muscle of the A. A. P. A. Now & again he is heard from, as he was last week...