Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accurately and fully reflect public sentiment, after following you four years, I am persuaded that the country is Wet. If your job is not fully and accurately done, then you are damp: for Wet sentiment in your magazine overtops...
...drink. Allowing for my personal prejudice for Prohibition, and allowing too for the fact that a minister never sees much of which the church frowns upon, ] cannot help feeling that. At least, when I have tried to interest friends in TIME, they say it is too cynical, too Wet for them...
...Washington there was a great slamming of heavy doors upon newshawks' noses last week as fourscore representatives of the 34 organizations composing the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, met secretly to devise ways & means of checking the Wet groundswell throughout the land. To reporters it was explained that many Prohibitors, particularly women, were "very timid" and hesitated to speak their minds before the Press...
Each year when the Treasury's appropriation bill comes up, Wet Congressmen cite such tragedies as this, brand as "murder" the Government's policy of using poisonous denaturants, propose the abandonment of lethal ingredients in industrial alcohol, are overwhelmed by the Dry majority...
...Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing horses-17 of them- swung in a half-circle, and down the straightaway past the enclosure. The course was wet and the horses ran warily, in the heavy manner of jumpers, and slowly, for the finish in front of the club enclosure was four and a half miles away around the serpentine folds of the course. Grasslands Downs is not so hard as the famous course at Aintr...