Word: wets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scurrilous correspondent of the wet Chicago Tribune pretended that the Summits Pontifex also said, last week, "We consider the Volstead Act immoral and contrary to the laws of Christ." Although the Savior and His disciples and the Virgin Mary did, indeed, all drink wine, it is impossible that the discreet Holy Father could have made such a remark within hearing of the world press...
Brother Pierre. A senior and most revered du Pont is Pierre Samuel du Pont?broad, thick chin; gleaming forehead; ready smile. He is a Wet. About six months ago he took leave of absence to join his protégeé, John J. Raskob, in working for the Democratic party. The rest of the du Fonts are Dry and Republican. A polite fissure among the du Fonts and within G. M. C. was apparent while the campaign was raging. Now that it is over, Pierre du Font's interest is in The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...Wet Democrats (46), mostly from Tammany; and one wet Socialist...
Motives. Rules Committee Chairman Snell (New York) described and classified the amendment's supporters according to motive, as follows: "First are the hysterical drys, who will do anything they are told to do by the active head of the dry organization; next are the bitter wets, willing to do anything to make prohibition a farce; third are the politicians who are seeking to rehabilitate themselves with their constituencies by voting dry after supporting a wet Presidential candidate; and finally there is a group willing to do anything to embarrass the incoming administration...
...rainy half hour R. L. McKenny, publisher of the Macon News, had waited there in his parked car to eye the wet Tammany candidate. Publisher McKenny's News was the largest and perhaps bitterest anti-Smith organ in Georgia. As the Smith car vanished, Publisher McKenny, who is a Kiwanian, a Methodist and a life-long prohibitionist, boasted...