Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wet Cleveland, National Committeeman Maurice Maschke said she was "misguided." In wet New Jersey, Senator Walter Evans Edge assured the public that Mrs. Willebrandt would make no visit there. From wet Wisconsin to wet headquarters in wet Chicago went a letter from Benjamin Fuelleman, a State committeeman. "Unless Mrs. Willebrandt is muzzled," wrote Mr. Fuelleman, "Mr. Hoover is sure to go down to defeat. ... If she fails to do this [return to Washington, be silent], President Coolidge should call for her resignation. . . . We cannot do it if we have to carry around...
...Border" "Wet East...
Herbert Bayard Swope, of the Democratic New York World, bought an estate worth $450,000 on Long Island. Its name is "Keewaydin." This means, the Republican and opposition New York Herald-Tribune hastened to point out, "Northwest Wind, or, in some dialects, Very Wet...
...printed in Lexington, Ky., on the front page of a church publication in a box of heavy black type: 'Recently the papers published how Governor Smith came near to a serious accident driving fifty miles an hour down Broadway while intoxicated. He was driving the car himself practicing his wet gospel...
...Washington, National Superintendent McBride was informed of the Ohio editorial by a Manhattan colleague who called it "flat dumbness," "not so particularly vicious as it is extremely foolish." Announced Leaguer McBride: "The Anti-Saloon League of America stands ready to support a Dry Catholic for the Presidency against a Wet Protestant...