Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petitioning Congress to cut off Federal road aid. Yards away, one Ben Hegler protested, picked up the nearest object at hand, let fly with the eye and arm of a veteran baseballer. His colleague, Senator Bennett, ducked, startled; in the very centre of his bald head splashed vehemently a wet sponge...
...Allowed dapper Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, famed Wet, to insert in the Congressional Record a sermon of his great-grandfather, famed Dry. The sermon's subject was national defense...
Besides functioning officially as President of Columbia Univesity, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is a Wet Republican and, on occasion, political dogmatist. Last week he strode into a small routine meeting of the Riverside Republican Club in Manhattan, said that President Coolidge will "declare his unwillingness" to accept the Republican 1928 nomination, that Republicans who try to force a third term on the President are looking for fatal trouble, that only a Wet Republican can carry necessary New York State against Governor Smith or Governor Ritchie, that Prohibition ought to be the issue...
...Leipzig, Dr. Nebert and Dr. Koch reported that they had gone from stable to stable, playing music to the cows and goats. The beasts so entertained produced more milk than usual, for milk yielding is a nervous reaction. The curious doctors then tried music on wet nurses, hired for suckling. But music had no effect on the wet nurses. They secreted a definite amount of milk, and no more. It is possible, however, that music may have a practical effect upon women who are especially susceptible...
Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, is a hard place to leave. Winter visitors "miss the boat" (back to the U. S.) surprisingly often. Nassau is warm. Nassau is wet. The sun, striking through Nassau's clear ocean shallows to coral bottom, paints them a variety of shore-sea greens and blues to which not even a penny postcard can do justice. When the Munson liner Munargo anchors outside the bar-guarded harbor and the stubby tender puts out from town with homegoers, people on shore feel sorry for people on the tender. People on the tender feel sorry...