Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Farmer Sprague, a free man, got home that night, he read of his victory in big black press headlines while his Wet friends puzzled him with assurances that he was another Dred Scott.* His cocksure comment: "Prohibition's a farce. I always knew the 18th Amendment wasn't constitutional. People should be able to drink what they want." Farmer Sprague & friends began to celebrate what they imagined was the end of Prohibition with heavy draughts of "cider" (applejack). Judge Clark's ruling, however, produced resounding results far beyond Wantage. His was the first Federal Court opinion...
...after a long lapse of years. Pennsylvania's Wet Representative Beck, onetime Solicitor General, recalled, however, that "nearly 25 years after the enactment of the Missouri Compromise, the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case finally concluded it was invalid." Judge Clark anticipated his critics with an analysis of all the other amendments in an effort to prove that the 18th constituted such a large and extraordinary a grant of power as to differentiate it from all others. But a Supreme Court opinion often cited last week to show the weight of custom in legislative ratification: "A long acquiescence...
...SALOON IN THE HOME-Ridgely Hunt & George S. Chappell-Coward-McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version...
Commented Wet Congressman Fiorello La Guardia of New York: "The country was up in arms against the use of deadly poison. This is but one concession...
...over the red clay farmlands and scrub forests of eastern Virginia to Richmond's Richard E. Byrd Field. An hour later the plane slips into Hoover-Washington Airport. Here the pilot makes a careful check of weather ahead: fogs from the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River may be wet.-Setting out again the plane cuts halfway between the Capitol and Washington Monument...