Word: wet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wet Senators were geographically distributed as follows: Walsh & Coolidge of Massachusetts, Bingham & Walcott of Connecticut, Barbour & Kean of New Jersey, Copeland & Wagner of New York, La Follette & Elaine of Wisconsin, Glenn & Lewis of Illinois. Bulkley of Ohio, Tydings of Maryland, Oddie of Nevada...
...their summer home at Campobello Island, N. B. Shortly after they arrived, Mr. Roosevelt caught a chill stamping out a forest fire. A cross-country run and a cold plunge in the Bay of Fundy seemed to help things, but when he got home he sat in his wet bathing suit to read his mail. He took another chill. Next morning he was down with infantile paralysis. Months later he arose to find his legs quite dead...
...suspicion that he has all the cautious conservatism of the ruling rich. He will be called a strong man who fights battles for the plain people and a weak man who never took the unpopular side to his own cost. He will be damned for being too Wet and damned for being...
Prohibition. Governor Roosevelt is a Wet who has declared for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Yet, with his eye on the White House, he would like to soft-pedal Prohibition as an issue and retreat into the mists of referenda. Widespread is the belief that, lacking profound Wet convictions, he is deliberately weaseling to woo Dry Democratic support from the South at the convention and in the election. He blocked attempts last year for a Wet declaration by the Democratic National Committee. The Roosevelt-Smith split grew out of opposing viewpoints on Prohibition?one for an honestly militant stand...
There are doubtless wet jesters near Boston who sense the truth of this statement...