Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turbulence was on the surface, yet perhaps it displayed a little of what was going on underneath, for prohibition is expected to play a major part in the elections of at least three large states next fall, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania?in Illinois because Mr. Brennan, the wet Democratic boss, has announced his candidacy for the Senate against the dry Republicans; in New York because the drys are expected to put up a candidate against Senator Wadsworth, who is not dry enough to suit them; and in Pennsylvania, where Representative Vare, wet boss of the Philadelphia machine, is expected...
...Senate, Mr. Edwards of wet New Jersey proposed a national referendum? on prohibition, saying: "Of course, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, believes my proposal to submit to a referendum of the people the question as to whether we are to have wines and beers, is an 'illegal, impracticable proposal...
...House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic decided it would investigate the effects of prohibition, but the wets laughed in derision. Representative Celler, a New York wet, exclaimed...
George F. Brennan, Democratic boss of Cook County (in which Chicago is situated), announced last week that he would be a candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois on a wet platform. Mr. Brennan is a follower in the national arena of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. Quidnunes guess that Mr. Brennan hopes to capture a seat in the Senate while the local Republicans are falling out with one another over the World Court...
...speak of spring fever would be pretty bad. Nevertheless, this business of wearing no overcoat is at best perturbing. It is comparatively easy to wander from lecture to lecture when the seven minutes between them are wet and disagreeable, but with this weather the situation changes...