Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiber but something rather inexplicable has happened in Adams House. Blame seems to fall on the Dining Hall which for so long brightened the faces of the W.C.T.U. with its refusals to serve beer. It has apparently not only completely reversed its stand now but has become an ardent wet supporter...
...smart to be goats of the attractive propaganda of bre1wers and distillers," she said. "It is they who have made the cocktail hour smart and popular. Some of our wet friends are now talking about education for enlightened drinking but allied youth feels that if one is enlightened," one does not care to drink. It is the first taste of alcohol which sends the drunkard on the downward path. We feel somewhat superior to these who pay good money to slide down to hill. No we do not want prohibition back again we only want to tackle it from...
...Gary, Ind., Beulah Hopkins stepped out of her bath, stepped on a cake of wet soap, skidded across her bathroom, shot out an open window, dropped three stories, plumped, unhurt, into a sandpile...
...wished his fellow Virginian ousted. He got the committee to vote (43-to-28) to retire Bishop Cannon for "ill health" - only grounds permissible under church discipline. But the conference, after two hours of debate in which the "Prohibishop" was pictured as a martyr to the machinations of the Wet Press and the Roman Catholic Church or as a man ''infirm" because of his "love of money and love of power," voted its confidence...
...infield, but none of the 19 high-strung Derby entries was much disturbed. Throughout the night, Derby guests continued their yearly romp, the less restrained firing the annual barrage of empty bottles into the court of the Brown Hotel in spite of the fact that Kentucky is now wet and liquor is sold by the glass. Next morning light showers fell, sending the odds down on long-shot mudders. By lunch time the track was already packed. And although Jailbird Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone had been unable to attend with special Pullman-loads of friends & associates...