Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chortled when a backbencher "Wet" cried to famed feminist exponent of temperance Viscountess Nancy Astor, M. P.: "What does the noble lady know from experience of the effects of small beer? The noble lady should become a member for one month of the Ancient Order of Frothblowers and diligently observe their slogan: 'Gallup your beer with zest...
Rays for Rapid Drying: Dr. William D. Coolidge recently produced powerful cathode rays (TIME, Nov. 1). To show a possible use for them, wet paint was exposed to rays from the cathode tube. It dried rapidly.?Professor J. S. Long, Lehigh University...
...order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting him to the White House for dinner. Later in the year (1906) Roosevelt, looking for a U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, remembered the stream-crosser, appointed Henry Lewis Stimson who, in addition to being Sergeant...
...particularly new arguments were created by Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho, Dry Republican, and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, Wet Republican, in their Boston debate last week, but what was said was said eloquently. Herewith some...
...will not hear from me but once the word 'Wet' or 'Dry.' I do not use them, first, because they are vulgar, and, second, because they are meaningless. My sense of humor protects me from applying the word 'Dry' to those supporters of a policy which has filled this nation, from Atlantic to Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, with a traffic in intoxicating liquor, wholesale and retail, that is illicit, illegal, untaxed and stupendously profitable...