Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massachusetts defeated Siwash on a wet field here today, 27-0. The long passes of the Bay Staters were too much for the men from the West...
...flood of pamphlets, leaflets, books and articles on the scientific, economic, sociological, hygienic and other phases of the alcohol problem"; publishing the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem; issuing press releases; "furnishing the religious press (which reaches the great bulk of our supporters) with articles intended to answer wet propaganda"; publishing The American Issue (national monthly...
...been: For the Republicans, Cartoonist Thomas Edwards Powers of the Hearst newspapers; for the Democrats, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby of the New York World. John Tinney McCutcheon's work on the Chicago Tribune (Republican) has been, except for his "Tammany Farmers" series,* quiet and conventional. The Tribune has to be wet in Chicago and no organ in the city that gave William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to the G. O. P. can afford to go very strongly on the Tammany-corruption theme. The "Tammany Farmers" series has stressed urban ignorance and presumption rather than any sinister note. Quite as characteristic...
...Less rigidly partisan than the Hearst web of 26 newspapers is the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, also 26 strong. The Scripps-Howard chain supported La Follette in 1924 and decided to support Hoover without "knocking" Smith this year. Scripps-Howard is wet. These facts explained the appearance, in close succession lately, of the two pictures by Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Harry F. Talburt reproduced on pages...
...booters were held scoreless until the third period on account of the treacherous footing of the wet ground...