Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some interest the appearance of Citizen Coolidge's life history, Editor Lorimer quietly announced that he had signed up Citizen Smith for Post articles. Many were astounded, surprised. Little had magazinemen dreamed that strong Republican, quite dry Saturday Evening Post would publish words written by strong Democratic, very wet Citizen Smith. Least of all, it was said, did Editor Long have any such dreams...
...owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them got wet, but the cheers which greeted the gelding when two men staggered toward him with a flower horseshoe, seemed to stop the rain...
...private car. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer went in an airplane and was greeted by Brother-Publisher Ralph Pulitzer. "Bath House" John Coughlin, owner of Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained out of his trousers. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt did not seem to mind when her Chicatie came in last. She still felt Chicatie was a nice horse. Among governors were Kentucky's Sampson, Tennessee's Horton...
...Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Post was among the Prince de Ligne's guests at an Embassy dinner last month. As everyone knows, the Belgian Embassy, like many another, is wet. At the dinner table Mr. McLean dined well, very well, too well. He was distressed. He requested the Prince's assistance. The Prince gave it-and asked his publisher-guest to leave the party. The Post's outbursts ensued...
...observers as a first fruit of Mr. Shouse's appearance in Washington, was the "discovery" last week by the Treasury Department of an order, signed in 1920 by Assistant Secretary Shouse, requiring customs inspection of all baggage of U. S. officials claiming "free entry." Dry congressmen with wet baggage have revived interest in this port courtesy. The Treasury indicated that the oldtime Shouse order would probably be taken no more seriously than before its rediscovery...