Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...congratulatory squeeze. Mr. Coolidge, without rising from his seat, reached up and did likewise. The President turned back to the public, seen and unseen, and began his speech (see col. 2). Wind-blown rain dampened his hair, clotted his eyebrows. He shook his head impatiently to get the wet off his face. The fringes of the crowd melted away. Indians in full war paint (friends and race relatives of the Vice President) retreated to shelter under the Capitol's main portico. The President began to hurry his words, faster, louder, doggedly, as the tattoo of water from above grew...
...nevertheless. From an upstairs window along the way, Dr. Arthur James Barton, southern Baptist, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and a band of prohibitors representing 29 other national organizations-the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (see p. 16)-looked down upon their Wet-Dry President with great satisfaction...
...Post, with many other good G. O. Papers, was "disappointed" in Mr. Hoover because, under ill-disguised pressure from the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan, he had rejected William Joseph Donovan, a prize Hooverite but a Roman Catholic and a Wet. Before the eager Donovan eye were juggled first the Attorney-Generalship, then the War portfolio. Mr. Hoover finally had to withdraw both. The best he could offer his good friend was the Governor-Generalship of the Philippines, which Col. Donovan refused, leaving Mr. Hoover to wonder if he had been disloyal to an old friend...
...friends regard him as Moist, if not Wet. To jack up the saggine morale of the Navy will be a man-sized job for him, which he will doubtless undertake with his usual quiet determination. He may be a yes-man to the White House occupant but to the admirals who flock around every Navy chief with selfish advice and suggestions he will most likely listen patiently and then, a seadog himself, bark...
Antiprohibitionists have reached down in their pockets, pulled out cash and founded another organ to fight propaganda with propaganda, Dry with Wet. Freedom is the new organ's name, a monthly published in Manhattan by the so-called National Committee for the Repeal of the 18th Amendment,* "for Constitutional Government, repeal of the prohibition laws and restoration of the Bill of Rights." Fifteen thousand copies of the first issue were printed and circulated last week. It was mostly free circulation, but subscriptions were solicited...