Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prohibition injected itself into the campaign in the form of independent Wet candidacies after Mr. Brown had weasled on this issue with a declaration for a referendum and Messrs. Grundy and Davis had mumbled the old formula about "law enforcement." The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment supported Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. for Governor and Francis Hermann Bohlen for Senator on a Dry-law repeal platform...
Weasling on Prohibition cost Mr. Brown the nomination. Mr. Phillips of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment rolled up 275,000 votes (as a Wet candidate four years ago he got 72,000 votes). Hoping to win both Wets and Drys, Mr. Brown straddled. Partisan Drys voted for Mr. Pinchot, partisan Wets for Mr. Phillips...
...motor accident). Few people in the audience could see beneath his bowed grey head, his haggard face. Feelings in the audience were mixed. There were those who resented the Bishop's political apostasy in the last presidential campaign (he a Democrat campaigned for Hoover, to defeat Smith, the Wet). There were those who despised him for "gambling" through a bucket shop, those who revered him for his skillful, devious, successful fight for Prohibition laws, those who admired him no matter what...
...during the game there were occasional showers but as Brown went to bat for the last time the rain fell in a downpour. Play was not interrupted, however, and the Bruin's hitting streak kept on with Harvard handicapped by a wet and a slippery ball...
...point of coarseness, bursting with a health and vigor 100% American, they were rushed to the stricken vineyards of France and upon their robust stalks were grafted delicate, refined French shoots. Thus, by a stupendous paradox the U. S., which was to become dry, enabled France to continue wet...