Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News that New Zealand had "gone wet" by a 100,000 majority of referendum votes was hailed with hosannas, last week, by wet U. S. news organs. The Republican but wet New York Herald Tribune editorialed: "In thus abandoning prohibition, after an extended trial, New Zealand follows the example of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, New South Wales, Norway, Turkey and Russia...
...referendum of last week free sale was carried by a majority, but since New Zealand always had had free sale,* the vote signified merely that voters are more wet-minded than they were nine years ago. Three years hence another referendum will be held and so ad infinitum...
...leading wet journal in America" is a title which many a publication would be pleased to accept. Judge or the American Mercury, for example, would love it. Last week, F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, had this title on the tip of his tongue and, forthwith, he deposited it upon Liberty, prosperous nickel weekly...
...Smith carried Massachusetts because, among other reasons, the state is overwhelmingly opposed to prohibition. In response to a question on the ballots, 33 out of 40 senatorial districts instructed their senators to vote for a resolution requesting Congress to take action for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. A wet vote of 619,000 glaringly opposed a dry vote of 347,910. Only three districts, rural and suburban, showed dry majorities. In the other four districts the question did not appear on the ballot...
...order to show his players how to handle a wet football, famed Coach Chick Meehan of New York University drenched several with a garden hose and gave them to his squad for practice, on a sunny afternoon...