Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reel off 420 yards and achieve 18 first downs against Norwich, while Brown went through B. U. for 299 yards, and 15 first downs during the course of an 18-0 victory. West Point found that its running attack wasn't going well against Washburn because of the wet field, so the Cadets took to the air for 24 yards on two passes. Holy Cross wasn't really faced with very tough opposition...
Angelina, the psychotic Portuguese, was frail, nervous and shy as a child. She wet the bed and had nightmares. This annoyed her stepmother. After Angelina began working as a chocolate-dipper she began to run around with boys, not for money but for trinkets, meals, good times. She bobbed her hair and said a kidnapper did it. Soon after, she caused her parents more anguish by dyeing her hair a flaming red and taking to bright-colored berets, tawdry dresses and high heels. When they found her bedding in a cellar with an Italian janitor's son, they...
...Georges Valot, secretary of France's Bureau for the Study of the Liquor Problem, completed a nine-month survey of the influence of liquor in the U. S. His findings: "Localities which are regarded as dry are invariably wet. Take, for instance, Charlotte, N. C. . . . open saloons and the most awful whiskey I have ever tasted. They make it out of corn. Three drinks of it will make a man climb trees. And Kansas City? Ah, Kansas City! I have seen the streets of Paris at their best or worst, but they are nothing like the streets of Kansas...
...year-old Spartanburg lawyer who had worked his way through college in a cotton mill, won with a 33,000 majority. Each contestant dodged the Prohibition issue by declaring he would stand by the results of an advisory referendum which, held a fortnight before, turned out to be Wet by 23,000 votes in spite of the State's failure to ratify the 21st Amendment...
...years, a horse in Captain Schultz's Circus performing in Rochester, N. Y.'s Centennial celebration last week, trotted a lion around the ring each afternoon & evening. Rain fell one afternoon and the board platform, set up outdoors in a park, grew wet and slick. In the midst of its act the horse slipped, nearly threw its rider. When the act was over the lion, a four-year-old named "Baby," lunged at the horse's throat. Its trainer was too quick for it, drove it from the ring...