Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months has come into international prominence through his campaign to make England dry and through the attack made upon him by a crowd of English students, who caused the loss of one of his eyes. Returned to this country, he is continuing his fight against the brewers and other "wet" agents, both with pen and by speech-making...
...great part of the saloons, were determined that they would obey no prohibition law whatever. Accordingly they followed the policy systematically year after year of trying to override the wishes of the people in the dry towns, cities and states. After a community or state voted dry, the wet interests would systematically seek to defeat the popular decision; they would institute liquor shops which would sell at the beginning beer within the two per cent limit. They would then, as soon as these shops had become established, begin to sell strong beers under two per cent labels. It was notorious...
This week the University squad has had no practice. Monday they went out to Braves Field to see the Braves overcome the Dodgers in the 19-inning game. Yesterday the rain and wet field kept them off the diamond...
...silly lost they be deprived of their inalienable privilege of getting drunk on Saturday night. Never fear, John Bull! Even if the "dry" Bogey-man does get you, it is only half an hour by air from Dover to Calais. And we venture to suggest that France will remain wet, until William Anderson has cut down the last grape vine, and the last yeast bacterium has turned up its toes and died...
...shillings, or half a pound, in every hundred. There may be nothing in figures, but we venture the suggestion that Great Britain is just one-half of one percent dry, and afraid of becoming more so. While we ah, sad to state!--are one one-half of one percent wet. But judging by the election returns, our thirst is as that of the herd of porkers who "rushed headlong into...