Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wet day the good ship President Madison steamed into the port of Yokohama. Americans were aboard, and a customs officer thought it his plain and insulting duty to breathe a little anti-exclusion spirit into his work. He examined the freeborn citizens of the U. S. for all the 60 seconds of the 60 minutes of an hour, forcing them, among other things, to stand on a wet wooden platform in their bare feet...
...Cambridge. Some 30,000 spectators assembled in the Harvard Stadium to witness the final Olympic track and field tryouts for the U. S. The day was wet, muggy, miserable, autumnal ; the ground was more like a soggy sponge than an athletic field; nevertheless, 104 athletes won the right to wear the U. S. shield at the Olympic Games at Colombes (Paris) next month...
...Emeritus of Harvard, countering Dr. Butler's views. To this statement Dr. Butler replied, but the search of The Monitor files disclosed no mention of the reply. Instead, The Monitor next published, also on its front page, a long article headed "American College Youth Repudiates Butler's Wet Views." All this occurred in the days following Dr. Butler's original remarks. But May dragged into June and The Monitor still continued its attacks on Dr. Butler. "Texas Repudiates Dr. Butlers View," "Governor and College Head Assail Dr. Butler's Position," "Tulsa Citizens Repudiate Dr. Butler...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed 253 votes for Governor Smith of New York on the first ballot, with a rapid increase of strength thereafter. Smith, the leading so-called wet aspirant, de fined his stand on prohibition by issuing a statement...
Jockey T. Weston. For years Lord Derby has let it be known that he cherished two ambitions: 1) to be Premier; 2) to win the Derby. With the first he has not yet finished; with the second "his cares are now all ended." The day was wet and forbidding. Great crowds of hundreds of thousands of people found their way to Epsom Downs. But pretty frocks and dashing sport clothes, so important to Derby Days, were all wrapped up in raincoats, and the only splash of color was that supplied by the gypsies. As the field of 27 faced...