Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote was light in the South and of course the city vote predominated, further handicapping the Drys, but the poll remains a rather sensational demonstration of wet sentiment, however inconclusive...
...feeding of infants when the mothers cannot do so with their own milk has been an arduous task for physicians. They have been at their wit's end for substitutes. Wet nurses will not always do, sometimes because they are unavailable, more often because they may suffer from contagious diseases to which their own offspring may be immune. Dr. Brouzet (Sur I'education medecinale des enfants) thought so poorly of human mothers that he wished the state to interfere and keep them from suckling their young lest they communicate immorality and disease. The chemist Van Helmont called milk "brute food...
...balance of the day's production and earn thereby enough money to keep from working. If they went to work while breast feeding, their own children would suffer from irregular nutrition. Besides, the energy the mothers need for creating milk would go into work. They could go around as wet nurses. But there too the effect of irregular hours would tell. The foster baby would also probably suckle more milk than the nurse could spare from her own child's feeding. The latter would suffer...
...miners are friends of Pinchot, but they are also wet. Who will get their votes, Pinchot or Vare...
...three cornered fight in Pennsylvania, just as, in; Illinois,* with one Wet against two Drys. One way or another in these uncertain triangles, the Administration may well be afraid of losing one or more of its supporters...