Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alert, however there still exist deadly bits of dagger play in domestic politics. By careful reading of the reports, one may reconstruct the Borgian episodes in which votes are used as weapons. The Pennsylvania primary, and the Wadsworth manifesto in New York are examples of the secret power of wet sentiment. For many a candidate, the prohibition issue will be as deadly a potion as ever was wine poisoned by intriguing princes. Thus, a sophisticated danger yet lurks in ballot box politics...
...that it is better to choose a college early than to try to make sense out of Aldous Huxley so they married and raised children who raised hell ten feet toward heaven by gilding the front stairs of the devil's bathing apartment so that he slipped on the wet paint--and it is really not often that the devil slips. And that my children (as the only honest man in the town said) is something. Nor was he completely without a certain sense of the fitness of things. No doubt he owes much to the fact that his earliest...
There followed a few minor eruptions in the press and then more and more vigorous ebullitions in Congress. Not only did such men as Senator Bruce (Wet and Democratic) of Maryland denounce the order as an invasion of state rights, but such men as Senator Goff (Dry and Republican) of West Virginia inveighed against it. Democrats such as Robinson of Arkansas, King of Utah, George of Georgia, turned upon the order. So did Wadsworth, Republican, of New York...
...Those wet bills have no more chance than a crippled grasshopper in a pen of turkeys."?Wayne B. Wheeler...
...Wet Paint (Raymond Griffith). In this picture plot has been taken quietly by the hand and pushed over a precipice. Mr. Griffith starts by making love to a gunman's wife, is surprised by the husband and terrified by his artillery. The rest of the picture is the old movies comedy-chase. Mr. Griffith drives a fire truck through heavily populated streets, invades a Turkish bath. These things are, as always, funny...