Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to the Conference Mr. Stanley High, one of the editors of the Christian Science Monitor, told a Crimson reporter yesterday that "The so called wet vote at Harvard and reports of wet sentiments in other Colleges have aroused dry sentiment among the students...
Harvard went moderately wet in practically every department of the University in the poll conducted yesterday by the CRIMSON--the Faculty joining the rest of the University in voting in favor of modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of light wines and beers, with a total vote of 1471 to 1047. It was distinctly a day of victory for the moderates--the out and out wets succeeding in getting even less for their proposition of repeal of the 18th amendment than did the bone drys for their stand of no change in the laws and more rigorous...
...Zouave with wet feet...
...Presidency and other leaders of the Party. This year, it is understood, there will be no Jackson Day Dinner. Democrats fear such an occasion would be too much like Jan. 8, 1815-peace but no peace. Some of the Democratic Presidential aspirants are at violent odds on policies-the wet and dry issue, for example- and the party wants no strife...
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy: "One Fred B. Smith called me a 'young fop at a meeting of the Citizens' Committee of 1,000 in Manhattan. Said he: 'I understand he is wet as the Atlantic Ocean, and if the young fop tries any of that business in New York he may rest assured that we will teach him the law as satisfactorily and with as much emphasis as his father would have done.' Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes and Bishop William T. Manning were among those seated on the platform...