Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reached the shore, where my wife helped me from the water. Drenched, hatless, I walked more than a mile to a farm hourse. Next day I was none the worse for my chilling experience. The newspaper made a great joke over the fact that I had been 'wet...
...result is uncertain. It is not considered likely that the King Cabinet will endorse all the proposals, some of which are far reaching. Canada deals with its prohibition question by provinces, and some of these are wet and some dry. The chief proposals made by the Americans included...
...earliest games with Yale, on November 12, 1881, the records speak of a "cold driving storm which soon wet the players to the skin," in spite of the fact that "the Yale team all wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...
Alfred E. Smith. The Governor of New York is an ardent Wet as well as a Roman Catholic. Therefore he has poor prospects. Nevertheless he may be used as a stalking horse by the three anti-McAdoo bosses, Brennan of Illinois, Taggart of Indiana, Murphy of New York, who recently sojourned together at French Lick Springs. There was talk of entering him in the Illinois primaries to prevent a McAdoo victory there...
...deaths of books are nearly always tragic. Either they are destroyed by violence or they suffer a lingering dissolution. How the younger volumes must look up to the martyred Aeschylus, found ? wet and bedraggled ? in the pocket of the drowned Shelley! J.A.T...