Word: wet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington, D. C., May 21.--Comparing Dr. Charles W. Eliot'68, president of Harvard University, emeritus, to King Solomon, Representative Emmanuel Celler, one of the "wet" leaders in the House of Representatives, criticised the aged educator for his views on prohibition in a letter made public here today. Mr. Celler's communication was a reply to a long letter written by President Eliot on May '15, explaining why, at the age of 88, he became an exponent of national prohibition...
...Tells of Wet Days Here...
...Mount Desert, in Maine. Although the Maine prohibition laws were rigidly enforced there, at the neighboring summer colony of Bar Harbor it was impossible to enforce the laws at all, because of the importation of liquor from neighboring states. Later in Massachusetts, when Cambridge was dry and Boston Wet, Dr. Eliot again observed the failure of the dry laws...
...public "wet and shivering, cold and snuffling...
...close of the day, which had been cold, wet and continually disagreeable, Tilden and Frederick Baggs went down to defeat before Throckmorton and Voshell...