Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures which give the Tarheels vicarious pleasure. For his fourth wife he married an ex-Follies girl in Manhattan, took her home to Asheville, was with her when she died there in 1934. Bob Reynolds busted North Carolina political tradition in 1932 by running for the Senate as a Wet, turned out Dry old Cam Morrison who had been a power in North Carolina for 30-odd years...
Three Little Words (Commodore Music Shop, 52nd Street, Manhattan). Newest and one of the ablest of hot chamber-music combinations-Jess Stacy (piano), Bud Freeman (saxophone), George Wet-tling (drums)-does an old one. Two Stacy choruses in the middle are notably imaginative...
...publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some of the soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where the sub-chaser sneaks through the mine-filled fog and destroys an enemy submarine at its base is very...
Jealous as a hen with one chick is Grand Rapids of its furniture shows. Mad as a wet hen is Grand Rapids when Chicago's bigger furniture shows are compared to Grand Rapids'. Pointing out that at the Chicago Mart buyers can purchase anything from iron nails to beef on the hoof, Grand Rapidans boast that their Market sells only furniture...
...upon a much more satisfying if not a more satisfactory solution. He hung a forest of "paint" signs all along the wall but left room for a large square one at the top of the stairs that smiled down upon the painting pedestrians as it remarked, "Yes, it is wet...