Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's candidacy was chiefly important because it was the first overt act by a regular to deprive President Hoover of renomination. In a long message ad dressed "to my fellow Americans," Candidate France, who lives the life of a country squire on his Cecil County farm, declared Wet, flayed President Hoover for his lack of "candor and courage" on the Prohibition issue, denounced the Farm Board's activities, excoriated "rancid radicalism." As a physician (he was graduated from Baltimore's College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1903) he diagnosed the aftermath of the War: "the ligaments of international association torn...
Because to win the presidential nomination a candidate must have a two-thirds combination of Wet and Dry votes in the convention, supporters of various candidates in their replies counseled patience and moderation in dealing with Prohibition. New York's ambitious Governor Roosevelt has sought to play down his Wetness to win Dry support. Among his supporters is 74-year-old Elisabeth Marbury, New York's prodigious national committeewoman. Her reply reflected the strategy of the Roosevelt boosters...
CITY LIGHTS-Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his lability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants, etc. etc. TABU-Fred Murnau's ideas about photographic story telling make this the best of the South Sea Island pictures-about a pearl diver and his girl. THE FRONT PAGE-Continuous crisis in a criminal courts press room, brilliantly written and acted...
...this fashion, but it has become obvious that liquor control of some kind is necessary. Nullification, however, can never solve the problem, because by definition, it eliminates the possibility of any regulation of the liquor traffic. Constitutional amendment, as Walter Lippmann points out, under pressure exerted by the wet states must be the eventual answer to the dilemma. When the wet party has recognized that their ultimate goal must be liquor control rather than total repeal, then they will be joined by the less orthodox drys and sufficient organized political pressure can be brought to bear to force the administration...
Tennis courts on Soldiers Field will be opened for the use of students of the University as soon as weather conditions are favorable, Dennis Enright, caretaker of Soldiers Field stated yesterday. At present the courts are far too wet but as soon as they are well dried out they will be conditioned and made ready...