Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present incumbents, one is Henry Riggs Rathbone, a statesman of the wet-lipped, silver-tongued variety, with a grandiloquent voice. Mr. Rathbone's parents were in President Lincoln's box at Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination. Mr. Rathbone has never permitted himself, or any one else, to forget this coincidence...
Just as in the meetings of its larger, brethren, there have been discussions over wet and dry planks, but the delegates did not devote themselves too seriously to work. For a demonstration of some practical politics they investigated establishments where their doctrines were being applied, attended dinners given in their honor, and between times met to consider the possibilities for nomination open to them...
Negatives at that time were made on wet plates, a sheet of glass covered with collodion and silver nitrate (sensitive to light) a few minutes before exposure. George Eastman, no scientist himself, tried empirically to invent dry plates covered with silver nitrate and gelatine. After trials and troubles which a thorough knowledge of colloidal chemistry, as he later learned, might have prevented, he succeeded in this effort...
...Crowe. This is indeed a puzzle and a bewilderment, at this writing not near a solution. But it is nothing to the spectacle of Mr. Coolidge's gunmen coming in from Washington to put all the works on Mr. Thompson's friends, to advance the cause of Wet America First and the Draft Coolidge cause. Credulity can get a crick in the neck even in Chicago politics...
There are 30 obstacles in the Grand National-streams, fences, dry ditches, wet ditches, walls, hurdles, ditches and fences combined. Only one horse fell at the first jump. At the fourth jump Sprig turned a somersault and two other horses fell on him. The field went...