Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University and a Wet, replied to a challenge to debate by Congressman William D. Upshaw of Georgia...
...Purple team was distinctly superior to the visitors, but three times lost opportunities to score by fumbling. One of the fumbles, on St. John's 10-yard line, resulted in the losers' only score, the St. John's quarterback running 90 yards for a touchdown after recovering the wet ball. Crowley's kicking and Kittredge's end runs were the cheering spots of the loosely-played game from a Holy Cross standpoint...
What was the play? It was the story of a Senator who was personally wet, but had to vote dry to appease his constituents. There are not a few men of that type whose place of business is the Capitol...
...Thomas is out of step with the American public. The man who once saw American life and its foibles clearly has become blinded by passion to the majority mind of the nation. He is turning the stage into a wet pulpit from which to slander lawmakers, officials and his fellow citizens...
GREENERY STREET-Denis Mackail -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). To make a novel out of commonplace incidents in the first year of a pair of young English newlyweds, and avoid being "wet,"* is something of an achievement. Author MacKail has done it, with a very nice mixture of mock solemnity and featherweight irony. That is all there is to Greenery Street-two charming children, Ian and Felicity, finding their love-nest, scrimmaging with bills, terrified of their servants, diffidently "philosophizing." A very lovely elder sister almost gives the story a serious background by trying to bolt from her husband with another...