Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, the competition which the Advocate is running is directed against a certain class of people only because they hold conscientious opinions. A scofflaw is no more the opposite of a dry than he is the opposite of a law-abiding wet. Thus this competition cannot possibly be considered an answer to Mr. Delcevare King's. It is but the beginning of a mud-slinging contest between wets and drys, and as such I do not think it ought to have the support of the CRIMSON which is a paper that should be above participating in such contests. --Horr...
Mahonri Young, sculptor, gave proof "to the public" at the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, that art is a trade and a craft and that "there is nothing mysterious about being an artist." Before 300 amused spectators he worked 50 pounds of wet clay into "a sketch of Joseph Peennell," etcher (TIME, Jan. 14). Both chatted continuously...
...Senator Sheppard of Texas: "Prohibition in the United States is both a permanency and a success." Dr. Ben Spence of Toronto: "Canada is bounded on the south by the Volstead Act, but it's somewhat leaky." Senator Willis of Ohio: "If any one comes to Cleveland with a wet plank and produces it, we'll use it as a skid to send him into Lake Erie." W. J. Bryan: "No matter which party wins, this country stays dry forever." More than a thousand delegates to the convention assembled in a driving rain before the White House and sang...
...House of Representatives of the United States of America, Representative John Philip Hill, Republican (Wet), of Maryland, and Representative William David Upshaw, Democrat (Dry), of Georgia, staged the following skit...
...believe that our colleges are not so wet as newspaper publicity would have us think," said Mr. Vernon L. Phillips, Chairman of the Students Section, yesterday. "Students believe in law and order," ideals which he went on to say were the objects of the Citizenship Conference...