Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, militant Wet riding on Governor Ritchie's bandwagon, who is opposed by Republican Senator Ovington E. Weller...
...conclusion of the bath she anoints her hair with coconut oil in which some particles of coconut meat may be seen and then knots her hair up out of her way and washes any clothes she may desire to clean. Then in her wet clothing she goes home for dry, and to comb and dry her hair. JASON M. WALLING...
...reason for the increase is only to be surmised; the candidates are, one may presume, neither better nor worse than those of former years; there is, outside of the possibility to a wet-dry conflict, no national issue; and there is no violent extreme of either great prosperity or deep despair. In other words the magic course which made the privilege of voting more than a potentiality is to be found, not in the controversies to be passed upon, but in a change in the voters themselves. And one of the most logical reasons for such an alteration...
...cold weather and wet courts the last few days have hindered the progress of the Union tournaments, but all of them should reach the finals before the end of the week...
...only serious accident of the tour occurred on the Storm King Highway near West Point, New York. I was driving 'Jezebel', the supply truck, down a very steep hill. With me were J. L. Shute and Edgar Barrier, a Columbia graduate. The roadway was wet and I applied all the brakes we had to slow us up a bit. Naturally, 'Jezebel's' brakes burned out and we dashed down at terrific speed. At the bottom, we hit another car, demolishing it, and then flattened five concrete posts before, turning over in a ditch. Shute and I went out through...