Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is, to be sure, the question of a personal example set by the Chief Executive. Smith's example would be frankly wet. Mr. Coolidge's is frankly dry. In addition, there is the question of Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court. In the history of this country more than one contentious law has been thoroughly reinterpreted by a new court which has changed in membership. Should Smith, by any chance, have the opportunity to appoint five members of the Supreme Court, the Anti-Saloon League would have good cause for worry...
...still young, tireless, and immensely capable--a man who has been loaded down with religious prejudice, the wet issue, and the fragrant memories of Tammany Hall and yet manages to remain politically available despite these handicaps, each one of which is theoretically sufficient to destroy him--a man of experience, wit, city manners and sophistication, who typifies the challenge of a restless urban civilization to the long-continued domination of a thousand Main Streets: this is the man who now bids for the nomination of a party whose strength, ironically enough, lies chiefly in the old aristocracy of the Solid...
...result of wet grounds the squad will be unable to begin practice at Soldiers Field until Monday March 26. Although no definite arrangements have been made yet, the team will probably play a number of practice games this spring...
...Dallas and Denver, which are Wet, he had cried out on "spies and snoopers." In Los Angeles, which is Dry, he explained that he, if President, would enforce the Volstead Act justly, faithfully and that Democrats had "bigger fish to fry than the red herring of Prohibition...
...Passed a resolution formally seating swart, Wet, loquacious Representative La Guardia of New York, whose right to sit had been contested...