Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wet & Dry, Duller but more important than the seating bicker were the sidelights of the Wet v. Dry struggle. Many of Chicago's saloons had been closed or had closed voluntarily for the duration of the convention, but the dampness of anti-Prohibition agitation was rife...
...Chicago, whither she had journeyed to work & pray against repeal platforms by either political party, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement announced: "He will hardly feel at home in the jubilant company of outlawed brewers and Wet attackers of the Constitution. I've known John since he was a boy and his statement makes me very...
Yesterday's scheduled game between the Crimson and Green nines, postponed on account of wet weather, will be played this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock provided the field is dry enough, it was decided late yesterday by the H. A. A. The team then journeys to Hartford, where it meets Trinity College tomorrow afternoon in its last contest before the first Yale encounter at New Haven on Tuesday...
After the meeting many a Mayor crossed the Detroit River to Wet Windsor to forget official troubles...
Approval of worm-fishing is not Author Bergman's only angling heresy. He considers wet fly fishing "as a finished art . . . much harder to master than dry fly fishing. ' Quoting directly from his field notes, Author Bergman tells about nights spent fishing Brandy Brook in the Adirondacks, days in which he did no fishing at all but sat watching a small stretch of stream to find out how its trout acted. Three years later he caught a trout in this part of the brook for the first time. Profoundly observant. Author Bergman caught trout on a wet...