Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweet birds of the Lord With earth's waters make accord: The Muses' sacred grove be wet With the red dew of Olivet, And Sappho lay her burning brows In white Cecilia's lap of snows...
...prominent member of Congress during the last session made a statement that, if 60 additional 'wet' Congressmen were elected next November, it would then be possible to modify the Volstead Law. It will be the effort of the Association to obtain these 60 additional votes...
...only party and the only wet candidate running is Robert M. La Follette. He has been continuously wet. . . . He has been a tsar in his own State politics, eliminating all the men who would not bow down to his 'graven image...
...wet Provinces: Quebec, Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Northwest Territories...
...encircling gloom arose Dr. Herbert Hensley Henson, whose style is the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Durham, 86th of those to hold that dignity. The Bishop, so the story ran, "jolted" his fellow Bishops by telling them: "Better a free Britain than a sober one." Such simple, wet words from a leader of the church militant had effect in defeating the bill by 166 to 50 votes. Their dry lordships continued to hold fast to their faith in the bill which they declared was not dead...