Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul Riley, 15. first came upon the scene during one of his evening rambles about the London suburb of Richmond, the youngster was entranced. There was a dark lane leading through weathered buildings to the Thames. Paul sketched it a few times, finally painted it when the streets were wet and the sky leaden. At Easter, when his father, an art teacher, was packing up some of his own canvases for the annual Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Art in London, he suggested that Paul send in something too, and Paul chose Water Lane, Richmond. "Have a bash...
...going for him not only the Republican record of prosperity but also a deep split in the Democratic Party between I) the rural, Protestant, Prohibitionist bloc that William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, had led until his death in 1925, and 2) the urban bloc, largely Catholic and "wet," mainly concentrated in the East, which Bryan had called "the enemy's country." In their intense suspicion of each other, the two wrangling camps had taken 44 ballots to nominate a compromise presidential candidate in 1920, and an exhausting 103 ballots in 1924. Having lost badly with both compromises, Ohio...
...Protestant attack on Smith after his nomination, opposition to him as a Catholic and opposition to him as a wet were inextricably entangled. People who were intensely hostile toward Catholicism were usually fervent drys. Since American traditions tended to inhibit direct assaults on religion, hostility to Smith's Catholicism was often expressed in denunciations of him as a servant of the Demon...
...disentangled from the Prohibition issue, gained him more votes than it lost him. If he had been a Protestant and nonetheless Al Smith in all other respects, the South might have remained solid (though he would still have lost many Southern votes as a big-city wet). But a Protestant Smith could not have carried heavily Catholic Massachusetts or Rhode Island, or racked up a net plurality in the twelve biggest cities. It may be true that no Roman Catholic can get elected President of the U.S., but the election of 1928 did not prove...
After ramrodding General Tire for 45 years, W.O. is not ready to retire. That was not the import of last week's shifts. While Jerry gets his feet wet in the presidency, his father will still be around asking questions like "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money...