Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediate program is to increase the Wet bloc in Congress by working locally for the election of Wet Senators and Representatives. At last showing (TIME, Feb. 27), the Wet bloc in the House was 61 strong, led by Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland. The A. A. P. A. will also try to insert anti-Prohibition planks in the national platforms adopted at Kansas City and Houston...
Numerous jumps, dashes, relay races for high schools and prep schools were notable chiefly for the fortitude of the spectators who sat in the cold & wet until everything was over...
...crux of the Smith candidacy which its supporters were taking on a surprising amount of faith. The California primary, first direct contest between the leading candidates, is of great importance psychologically as well as numerically. California is farthest from New York. California contains a curious mixture of wet Protestants, dry Catholics and vice versas. Thousands of Republicans were registered to vote in the Democratic primary. To predict a decisive Smith victory in California the margin of 10,000 votes quoted last week by Smith men seemed inadequate, senseless. Behind Candidate Walsh is William Gibbs McAdoo. Behind Candidate Reed is William...
Although the wet weather has prevented the first year men from any regular practice this week. Coach Claude Davidson feels that the team is in good shape and should emerge on the long end of today's verdict...
...moments later the royal motor passed slowly over cobble stones still wet with blood drawn by the bomb. A pandemonium of cheering rose about His Majesty: "Viva il Re! . . . Glory to Savoy! [the Royal House] . . . Live! Long live the King...