Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Smith's position as a potential nominee seems to be still somewhat clouded, and if cannot bue be regretted that the Wet issue seems to be still dangerously entangled with religious prejudice. This aspect of the problem, always in the foreground, but heretofore rather problematical in its significance, has recently taken a more definite shape, and where anti-Catholic prejudice seemed to have been some what alloyed, it is now logical to expect that this factor will again come into prominence. A recent editorial in Osservatore Romano, the official mouthpiece of the Vatican, is reported as being an attack...
...crew is now wet and it is extremely cold. It is my opinion that men embarking in submarines must possess the qualities of coolness and nerve, and must be extremely painstaking...
Detroit's chances were destroyed by a characteristic chirrup from Senator Moses of New Hampshire. With an eye cocked at wet Ontario across the river from Detroit, Senator Moses said: "It would be the first time anyone was ever nominated for President on foreign soil...
...with a succession of gutterals even in those class rooms where the practise is frowned upon. Its debilitating influence on colds makes the catching of them merely nominal. In reality they lie at one's feet for the making. Now an open window means an absorbing flow of mucus. Wet feet provoke an interesting condition wherein the brain becomes remote from the sensual world, an aching entity in which the weariest efforts of the will can not arouse a thought. And it is suggested that if make them the principal subject of con-efforts of the will can not arouse...
...promised. The Mrs. Hubbard who won first prize is First Vice-President of the Woman's National Democratic Club. Two of the other slogans submitted were issued for publication. One from Washington said: "My eye! We're dry!" One from California said: "You bet! We're wet!" As the women Democrats doubtless knew, most famed political slogans have either been struck-off in the heat of great partisan moments or have emerged from nowhere to win no prizes for their anonymous authors. In a bygone day, a slogan contest would have seemed as absurd as the idea...