Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was a special meeting of the Democratic National Committee called by its energetic little chairman, John Jacob Raskob. A foreknowledge that he, a Wet, would bring up Prohibition as a party matter had provoked preliminary wails of warning from Southern Drys, which helped only to advertise the gathering. The certain prospect of the kind of intraparty fight that only Democrats can stage drew throngs of spectators to the assembly. Senators, Representatives, National Committee members milled about in open anxiety. From the wall fell the stern gaze of Thomas Jefferson...
...amendment which will provide that nothing in the 18th Amendment shall prevent any State from directing and controlling absolutely the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors within its borders. . . . This plan prevents the return of the saloon. . . . In order that the Democratic party will not be called 'Wet' or 'Dry' I should like to christen this plan as the 'home-rule plan' because it is neither a Wet nor a Dry plan but a plan under which the people, through their respective States, may exercise the right of self-determination...
This proposal started the Democratic pot boiling. Drys thought their chairman was using his high office to crystallize Wet sentiment against them, to pledge the Democracy against Prohibition long in advance of the national convention. Tennessee's Dry Senator Cordell Hull began the pleading: "My God! The Democratic party has never had such an opportunity. Why take a lantern and search out something on which we can divide? Let us leave this question alone...
CITY LIGHTS-Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his ability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants...
Even if a boy, the babe would still have received a sword, its significance being "to ward off evil." Being a girl, the pink babe was also presented with a purple skirt, "emblematic of femininity." She was then turned over to her two wet nurses, wives of army officers. Diligent, they have been studying Yamato Kotoba, the special court language, for months, will be able to address the suckling princess properly...