Word: wets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Average Citizen Gray was "discovered" last year by the American Magazine, by virtue of geography and statistics. Aged 44, medium height, medium weight, medium coloring, not Wet, not Dry, Citizen Gray conducts a clothing store. Asked last year whom he thought would be the next President, he replied: "Oh, probably Charley Hughes...
...States, however, Senatorial campaigns might help or hinder the winning of electoral votes somewhat as follows: In wet Republican Illinois, wet Democrat A. J. Cermak campaigned formidably against Republican Otis F. Glenn. The Cermak insignium was a bottle-opener and the motto: "This is for beer. So is Cermak." So is Smith...
...doubtful Maryland. Democratic Senator Bruce, defending his seat against Republican Phillips Lee Goldsborough, exhorted his supporters also to support Nominee Smith. (Here, too, the gubernatorial situation was in the Brown Derby's favor. Governor Ritchie, wet, popular. Democrat, was campaigning for a third term...
Charles Evans Hughes began a sustained Republican effort in Missouri. There are 18 electoral votes in Missouri. The usual complexion of the State is: Republican in and about wet, German-populated St. Louis; Democratic in the dry, farming western reaches. This year, the wet German-Americans, led by oldtime-brewer August Adolph Busch, have inclined sharply to Smith. Farm unrest impeded a compensating swing to Hoover in the west. To St. Joseph, on the extreme western edge of Missouri, went Campaigner Hughes to praise the Hoover record, to admit that "the Republican Party was betrayed in its own house...
...reached Blackstone, one of Massachusetts' most safely Democratic cities. There "safe" throngs throated the governor as he embarked on an experiment shrewd in motive. He would leave his train and motor to Providence, R. I., through the mill towns of the Blackstone Valley which are traditionally Republican, French-Canadian, wet and Roman Catholic. Let the human test-tubes boil...