Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene in "We Moderns" comes when a crowd of youthful revellers crashes down on London roofs in a blazing dirigible. For some reason, it is about as exciting as shaking hands with a rubber glove full of wet mud in a school boy initiation...
...every hand law violation obtrudes its hideous head and blatant voice. A wet press and unfriendly magazine writers wrongly charge to prohibition scores of crimes and deplorable conditions; in any locality petty violations of the prohibition law can be greatly minimized if local sentiment expresses itself in prompt, constructive community action against them, rather than dissipating its energies in passive bewailing and garbled gossip...
...Branscomb of Anniston, Ala., regarding the possibility of the Democrats' nominating a wet for the Presidency: "My grandfather and my father were Democrats, and if I should vote the Republican ticket they might turn in their graves, but I would do it if the northern Democrats should betray the cause for which we have suffered...
Governorships. In New Jersey a Dry Republican, State Senator Arthur Whitney, was defeated by A. Harry Moore, a Wet and a Democrat. Score 470,000 to 430,000. None the less the Republicans won 47 of the 59 seats in the State Assembly, 18 of the 21 seats in the Senate, and elected a Congressman to a vacancy...
...muck and unpleasantness, but at the same time on the direct railroad to Fez and the embroiled uplands. General Boichut, commanding the extreme southern end of the French line, will likewise be exceedingly comfortable at Algiers on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile General Marty will be marooned high and wet at Taza; and Generals Pruneau, Hergault and Billotte will occupy a series of sloshy, uncomfortable positions to the west and northwest. Cables announced that the U. S. "Sherifian Escadrille," which has been fighting the Riffians to the annoyance of Secretary Kellogg (TIME, Sept. 28, THE CABINET), has been "disbanded" and the airmen...