Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wet. Weary reviewers approached this one cautiously. After pawing it a bit with their pens, they passed on, rejoicing that they had seen the last play until the August rush begins. Last of the season, and one of the least...
...bomb into the proceedings by attacking, not the justice of the Experts' (Dawes) Plan, but its feasibility. Grave doubt exists in the minds of many ex-Allied economists on this point and still graver doubts are entertained by many Germans. But that anybody should have publicly thrown a wet blanket over the Plan was a possibility too disconcerting for thought. Yet, it happened. Allied countries were horror-stricken. Germans jubilated...
...even the war on Rum Row between the wet fleet and the dry has killed the news interest of a speech on the world court, especially when that speech is made by the fiery Senator Borah. But let the observer take heart at this apparent indication of depth and breadth of thinking in America, the cynic points out that the arguments advanced by the Senator are hopelessly trite and superficial...
...wet May Day, bad for top hats. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald came in a soft felt and a lounge suit, a fact which brought joy to the shires but caused a slight depression on the Exchange. Lords and ladies, Knights and gentlemen, they saw pictures that pleased them-suave specimens of super-photography in oil, executed by the hand of man, unassisted by any machine. Sir John Lavery's adept portraits of George Bernard Shaw, of Jockey Steve...
Ontario recently went wet to the extent of 4.4% alcohol...