Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mars when Senator Sheppard's own mammoth Texas became the 23rd consecutive State to plump for Repeal. In a light vote, due to public apathy and a $1.75 poll tax, the 21st Amendment was ratified by a 114,000 majority. Even Senator Sheppard's own Texarkana turned Wet against him. Simultaneously the Texas constitution was amended to permit sale of 3.2% beer...
...when he was given leave of absence from the Marines to act as Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia. He announced that he would dry up the city in 48 hours. Two years later, disgusted with politics, politicians and Philadelphia, he returned to the Marine Corps, leaving Philadelphia as wet as ever. Scarcely had he arrived at his new post at San Diego when he piled Ossa on the Pelion of his unpopularity by having his Navy host (whom he ranked) court-martialed for drunkenness...
...train lurches and grinds forward. The night before the Vagabond sat in a little room up under the roof smoking meditatively and wondering at the beauty of a girl's profile against a shaded lamp. She was reading Eleanor Wylie's poetry half aloud. Her lips were wet, and the dampness in the air wove her black hair into ringlets. Outside silver rain was falling softly through the blackness in Bay State Road, and the poplars were glad for the rain...
...London is full of boats, secondhand Buicks, and bouncing college girls. The Sound is the playground of sybarities. Stretching off to Long Island, the shoreline follows the water as a wet garment clings to the firm sweet limbs of a girl and the little line of foam, milky in the moon, decks her with lace...
...kissed her with utter tenderness, as they lay on dry pine needles. Her hair was wet from the rain and she was cold. Suddenly before his closed eyes the vision swept of the peace of perfect sunlight as it plays symphonically among dancing green leaves in a forest at noon, and the sweetest singing of many brooks was in his ears, as he said: "Girl, will you marry...