Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third or fourth time since early Autumn. "Another Andrew Jackson," was the cry. This time, friends of Alfred Emanuel Smith were not alarmed. Reed men, it was understood, were to organize delegations in States lack- ing "favorite sons." The probable result: having been instructed for a Wet, Reed delegates would, if and when his chances died at the convention, have only to exercise religious tolerance to swing to the other outstanding Wet, Candidate Smith. And Senator Reed is the author of the epigram: "Give me the radius of a man's intelligence and I will describe the circumference...
...Wet or Dry. This year the Famine Dragon is dry. He came last summer in the likeness of a burning drought and accompanied by a pest of locusts. Result: crop yields have fallen to 25% of normal in 65 of the 407 districts of Shantung. A similar dry famine in North China brought Death to 500,000 in 1920-21, and rendered 20,000,000 destitute...
...ready to name that mountebank for their leader, there are enough whose sentiments concur with his, to form a very considerable block against the election of Governor Smith. The women's branch of the Democratic party has stated an equally strong determination against the nomination of an avowed wet. And it was for this wetness that Mr. McAdoo assailed the New York governor in an important address in Virginia that belied the harmony of the Jackson Day dinner, and promised much strength to the southerners who will support Senator Reed of Missouri. With this formidable entente arrayed against the eastern...
...along with blondes, where they should travel. Since centuries before Tut of the Egyptians, a canny minority has been answering these more-or-less cosmic riddles for the curious majority. The answers are not always correct, but they have some fine trappings?crimson draperies, crystal balls, ouija boards, wet towels...
...table-tippers, ouija-board-pushers, rhythmical dancers and all-round yogis stop at nothing in time, space, mind or matter. Then there is the New World Water Cult, with rooms in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland, whose members sit with their bare feet in hot water and with cold wet towels around their heads, concentrating on questions for the Water Master to answer...