Word: wets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against him in the November election will run Prof. William Moseley Brown, 35, of Washington & Lee, nominated by a fusion of Republicans under C. Bascom Slemp and anti-Smith Democrats led by Bishop James Cannon Jr. (TIME, July 8). Bishop Cannon has attempted to make the campaign issue: "Wet-Raskobism." Facts to point the Cannon issue: Prof. Pollard was supported by Governor Harry Flood Byrd, Brown Derby advocate, and had himself stumped for Governor Smith. Facts to blunt the Cannon issue: Both candidates are Dry; both candidates are Protestant...
...last week Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition, began a series of articles for a newspaper syndicate led by the Wet New York Times. After eight years' experience, she prepared to say whether Prohibition was enforceable, whether it could be made popular, who was to blame for its nonenforcement et al. Excerpts...
...childhood at 14, in 1909, in the southeastern edge of the Harz. Summering there, his father, his friend, his sweetheart, his would-be rival, all unconsciously matured the high-school student. Wolf's father, however, wished to keep him a child, continually worried about Wolf's getting wet feet. The boy felt he would like a country of real dangers, of snakes and apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here was one with whom he could laugh, play, tumble, tease, poetize...
...began as a literary hoax. The Berliner Tageblatt in 1924 received and printed a series of satiric poems signed by one J. L. Wetcheek, "famed" U. S. poet, translated into German by Lion (Power) Feuchtwanger. Soon, however, someone discovered that Wetcheek was unknown to U. S. Kultur, that wet-cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted...
...Literally named, the spitball has saliva applied on one side. The difference in atmospheric friction on the wet and dry sides gives the ball a queer twist or "break...