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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Carmack was shot down for personal reasons after he had failed to beat Malcolm Rice ("Ham") Patterson, a Wet from Memphis, for the Governorship. In his martyrdom Carmack accomplished what his campaign failed of: the 1909 General Assembly's first act was to pass

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Legal Toddy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Assembly's repealer. This deed may alter Mr. Cooper's political future, but it did not alter the legislators' minds. Crying, "We've got the liquor now: let's regulate and tax it!" they overrode Governor Cooper even as a Dry Assembly overrode Wet Patterson 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Legal Toddy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Tennessee did not vote back its bars. Its new law permits package trade only, for cash not credit,* with the wet-dry option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Legal Toddy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Skiing Snow In. Bartlett, N.H. Cloudy Fair 18 Wet Canaan, N.H. Cloudy Good 15 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Cloudy Poor 70 1 in. br. cr. Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 19 Granular Dartmouth Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 11 Franconia Notch, N.H. Cloudy Poor 40 1in. br. cr. Fryeburg, Me. Fair Fair 28 Light cr. Greenfield, Mass. Fair None 2 Soft Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Fair 20 Granular Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Fair 19 Granular Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Poor 16 Wet Lancaster, N.H. Raining Poor 10 Wet Lincoln, N.H. Cloudy Fair 28 Wet Littleton, N.H. Cloudy Poor 8 Wet Monadnock Region, N.H. Fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIING CONDITIONS | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

This enlightening conversation was being conducted between the young the young lady on Vag's left and her robust little confidante on Vag's right. Vag was wet, he couldn't see, and now he couldn't even hear. He knew that if he didn't leave immediately, he would lose all control and commit the heinous offense of bashing together two female heads. Muttering insincere apologies, the Vagabond clambered over legs and seats and splashed his way to the nearest subway entrance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

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