Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clam or an undertow or a beach littered with bottles, fruit crates, oil dregs, clinkers. The Governor of South Dakota is a witty man, as all can testify who heard his speech at the Jackson Dinner in Washington last fortnight. Confronted with an ocean, he said: "It looked pretty wet...
Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland praised Senator Reed, Grover Cleveland and the outstanding absentees, Dry Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana and Wet Governor Smith of New York. About the latter. Governor Ritchie waxed fervent: "He has proved himself, of course, the great Governor of a great State and an honest, fearless and efficient administrator. But more than that, the masses sense that here is an authentic voice, not only of the Democratic Party but of the democracy of the nation...
...element, minus Senator Walsh, was not as formidable as the Wet among those present. But trepidation was felt until William Gibbs McAdoo began to be heard from. That he would not be "unharmonious" was apparent as soon as he said: "When I ran into Will Rogers today...
Harvard contended that Governor Smith had not shown himself to be nationally minded, that he is "wet" in practice as well as in theory, and described him as "a man with a broad smile, an affable winning personality, and, in fact, a great old scout...
...arrived in Venice to find the streets flooded. It was all wet all right. The Swiss? They wear velvet B. V. Ds. Not only the mountains are high in that country, the hotel rates ditto. No wonder people won't fight those guys, they're gallant chargers...