Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that time, with credentials, dinners, speeches, introductions over, what affairs of state will immediately confront Minister Phillips? Officially, he will be called upon to handle the U. S.-Canadian immigration question; unofficially, he will doubtless keep himself informed concerning the adventures of thirsty U. S. citizens in wet Ontario...
...less than the Republicans) with Alfred Emanuel Smith comfortably leading with 53,751. Senator James A. Reed, eloquent Missourian, ran second with 41,185. William Gibbs McAdoo, declared politically dead by Smith followers, stirred in his grave and captured 37,245 ballots. Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet champion of states' rights, totaled 26,113 and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, very dark horse, polled...
...last week seemed the Ontario Oasis which last fortnight (TIME, May 23) beckoned so invitingly to parched U. S. throats. Ontario had gone wet, Ontario was easily accessible, many a U. S. citizen planned Canadian weekends, magnificently moist...
Obscure in its foundation, the Anti-Saloon League today is one of the nation's most powerful organizations. Wets have termed it the Fourth Branch of the Government (legislative, judicial and executive being the other three); have roared against its "invisible power." While its founders were meeting in Oberlin, its present General Counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, was announcing a funding-program of $300,000 a year for the next two years. Denying that this money ($600,000 in all) was to be used against Wet presidential candidates, Mr. Wheeler said that only the "moderate sum" of $50,000 would...
...entered the cockpit. At 7:52 a. m. he was roaring down the runway, his plane lurching on the soft spots of the wet ground. Out of the safety zone, he hit a bump, bounced into the air, quickly returned to earth. Disaster seemed imminent; a tractor and a gully were ahead. Then his plane took the air, cleared the tractor, the gully; cleared some telephone wires. Five hundred onlookers believed they had witnessed a miracle. It was a miracle of skill...