Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet Democrat, ate haggis* with the St. Andrew's Society last week in Manhattan. Said he: "About the only things that make eyes flash and stir human emotions now are Prohibition, the K. K. K., religious intolerance and Fundamentalism. . . . The real question is not whether you are 'wet' or 'dry,' to use the inept phrases of the hour, but whether there should be a national, blanket law governing any such question of personal conduct when that law receives neither sanction nor regard among large communities and groups...
...League, in convention, voted to forego the undercover method of ensuring enforcement by exerting strong pressure on Government officials, a method used so effectively by the late Wayne B Wheeler. Hereafter it will make a frontal attack with publicity, educational campaigns, and an attempt to answer and condemn all "wet" literature and periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil and the Methodist Church...
...yard and found the dairy-man's herd of 13 cows all sick, their udders and teats pocked with pustules. The diagnosis was: cowpox, long a rare disease among animals, as well as among humans. The treatment: applications of mercurochrome and hydrogen peroxide to the sores and wet dressings of aluminum acetate...
...only issue of great popular interest in the coming presidential campaign. Senator Borah, in demanding that the subject be brought into the open and voted upon, emphasizes the reluctance of the two major parties to touch the question, and shows confidence in the general belief that the country, however wet in sentiment, will unfailingly give a dry vote. What the opposition needs is a slogan that might convince citizens that the desire for disreputable indulgence is not implied in a vote for a repeal. This, with the exertion of the newspapers might very well blow the Prohibition question into enough...