Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday audience in Baltimore, Senator Heflin said: "There are so few wet advocates in the Senate they could be put inside a taxicab...
...were fortunate enough to be there during the wet season. The average annual rainfall in the western part of Liberia is 150 inches; you can well imagine what a thick tropical forest is like after these rains...
Toward Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario some U. S. citizens feel a disloyal gratitude, for it was he who led Ontario Wets to victory at the last election (TIME, Dec. 13), and it is from soon-to-be-wringing-wet Ontario that numberless little boats will push off next spring across the Great Lakes with damp cargoes for the Middle West. Therefore when Premier Ferguson made a public pronouncement last week he was well heeded...
Said he, "This bird is soaking wet...
...HILL OF HAPPINESS- George N. Bhuster-Appleton ($1.75), The Franciscan monastery of these quaint tales might as well be in Renaissance Perugia as where it is in fact, modern California. Ineredible as it may seem, no modern note steals in, unless a circus, wet concrete or an ichthyosaurus may be called modern. St. Bonaventure's is as little concerned with the outside world as it is with the early lives of its members - now all disguised as Brother Benedict, Brother Cosmos and the like (no Brothers Pete, Mike, Joe or Henry). The village, where the author grew...