Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intended compliment. ... I do not know about New Haven but with regard to drinking in the colleges throughout the country I am afraid you are right. ...* You have finished with that bugaboo of conventional respectability which is today hobbling hypocritical legislators who vote 'dry' and live 'wet.' This to you is nauseating. This gives me the courage to believe that the present disastrous and demoralizing conditions cannot last into the period when some of you are representing your constituents in Congress...
...protest at Washington against the boarding, the swaggering display of firearms, the "threatening and profane" language before Mrs. Fish and the boys. With yachtsmen fuming, pleasure-boat builders professed belief that the Government was threatening their business. President William Hartman Woodin of American Car and Foundry Co. - a Wet Republican who supported Alfred Emanuel Smith for President - called for united protest, thus: "Certainly the sport of boating cannot be safe if the lives and property of boat owners are subject to such perils. . . . Our Government should be asked to curtail the activities of Coast Guard boats. . . . Boat manufacturers with large...
...Newcomers arrived in Washington sometime after the turn of the century. They are the active stagemanagers who keep the official actors moving rapidly from one dining room set to the next. They are mostly Wet. They play bridge and poker, go in for costume parties. Their parties are less exclusive than the Cave-dwellers', but they seldom give their guest lists to the newspapers...
...high Government officers returning from "official missions" abroad, the Treasury grants "free entry" through the customs barrier. "Free entry" luggage is passed without inspection at the pier. Many a Congressman during recesses of Congress goes to Panama (wet) for a vacation, pretending to make an official study of the Canal Zone, and thus becomes eligible for "free entry" on return...
Fiercer the wind. At 150 m.p.h. it sounded thin and high.* It sucked at the plane, whirled her backwards for half a mile. The three men, planeless, could only wait wet and miserable for rescue. It came...