Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a majority of the 1,400,000 votes cast. If Mr. Pinchot, the ardent Dry, had not decided to enter the field as a third, it is most unlikely that Vare would have won. So, fundamentally, it was the act of a Dry which nominated a Wet...
...Drys claim that it was because the Dry vote was split that Mr. Vare won. But their argument is not convincing. Undoubtedly many votes in the Pittsburgh region which the Mellon organization swung to Pepper, would on a pure Wet and Dry issue have been Wet. And it is even likely that Mr. Pinchot got some normally Wet votes among the miners. The factors which tend to emphasize the Wetness of Vare's victory are that in Philadelphia 14 of the 15 silk-stocking wards, which ordinarily the local machine is sure to find opposing it, turned round and voted...
...were to muster before me the murderer with blood-wet hands, the thief in possession of his loot, the highwayman armed with bludgeon and pistol, the firebug with his torch, the burglar with dark lantern and jimmy, and if you were to place with that assembly of rogues the wretch who had corrupted an election, I would unhesitatingly declare the corruptionist the blackest scoundrel of them all. I would so say because the man who attacks the foundations of his Government and thereby assails the very structure of society is the greater criminal, the more intolerable villain, for his criminality...
...Pennsylvania primaries had died away, the fate of another Republican Senator was sealed by ballot in Oregon. There Robert N. Stanfield was up for renomination. The nomination race turned into a free-for-all for the Republicans. There were eight candidates, including one Senator, one woman and one Wet (Oregon is prevailingly Dry). The Senator had against him an incident in a café in Baker, Ore., last fall (TIME, Sept. 28), when he was arrested for drunkenness and never appeared in court to face the charge...
Around the camp lodge are several log cook-houses, where some of the American delegates made gingerbread for scout leaders from Poland and Latvia. All over the 281-acre camp tents were pitched where the leaders slept, even on a wet rainy night which fell during the conference. One of the youngest leaders, a 19-year-old girl from Latvia, was afraid and wanted to be locked in one of the cabins for the night so as to be safe from Indians. Mrs. Wynaendts-Francken of Holland, relative of Edward Bok, went about in the mud wearing sabots. A young...