Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rubber spats, to prevent wet ankles...
Motoring in his Ford roadster over wet roads from Soestdyk Palace to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, fast-driving Prince Consort Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld* saw a heavy sand-laden truck shoot out from a side road. Prince Bernhard slammed on his brakes, skidded, collided with the truck. With a slight concussion, a gash across his face, he was hospitalized, sewed up, put to sleep. His first visitor was Mother-in-Law Wilhelmina. Second visitor (against doctor's orders): Wife Juliana, who expects to present him with an heir in January...
...point is, one does not take a wet-dry poll in a saloon. Asking double-header patrons if they like doubleheaders amounts to the same thing. In both cases, the sample is biased...
...Later in the week, in her column My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: "I ... drove over ... to talk for a few minutes with the Prime Minister of Norway, the Norwegian Minister and his wife. They were lunching with the President. . . ." Mrs. Roosevelt would have had a long wet drive had she indeed gone to see the Prime Minister of Norway, Johan Nygaardsvold, for he was last week attending to his business in Oslo. The gentleman with whom Mrs. Roosevelt chatted was Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Halvdan Koht, who is visiting the U. S. to confer with Secretary...
...Said a contemporary of Pius XI: "He was in every boyish prank. ... He always liked to jump. ... In a fight with my cousin, he got a bloody nose. He never forgot that. It took him a year but he gave his milk brother [son of Achille Ratti's wet-nurse] something to remember in a black...