Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tread of a steamroller is broad and crushing. The tread of a tiger is soft, delicate but just as sure as a steamroller. It was while the Dry Democrats were nervously guarding themselves against a steamrollering from the Wet Democrats at Houston, that the representatives of Tammany Hall sidestepped what had threatened to be the one hitch of the convention, the hitch of the Prohibition plank in the party platform...
...round-shouldered man was William Morgan Butler, outgoing chairman of the National Republican Committee. After leaving the dais at Kansas City, he had fulfilled his duty by calling on the holder of "the most important position in the world."-In the wet woods, on an island, in a cabin, beside a fire, they had discussed politics scarcely at all, Mr. Butler said. They had talked about fishing. They had gone fishing. Mr. Butler had caught some fish. He would not tell whether President Coolidge had caught any. He was going to Boston. The rain continued...
...called Stone Bridge. Past beaver houses, mink holes, deer licks, naked rampikes, swarms of mosquitoes and a military outpost, who carefully examined the voyageurs, the newsgatherer came to a thin hedge screening the river from a lake which it entered. Across the lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon hat. He was watching trout come to the surface to snatch morsels of liver, their semiweekly rations. The surface...
...reporter from the militantly wet New York World called on Governor Smith and popped the following question: "In view of the question raised at Houston about Norman E. Mack's statement [see p. 9], the World wishes to know: Have you changed your belief that there should be amendment of the present Prohibition provisions...
Hudkins-Walker. Ace Hudkins, pal of Charles Lindbergh, bouquet-lover, and broken nosed punch-drinker who fights flail-fisted, lunged after middleweight champion Mickey Walker in a wet ring in Chicago. Rain on the canvas was stained with the blood that flowed from the lips and noses of both men. Walker won two rounds, Hudkins five, the rest were even. When the referee, with finger pointing at Walker, yelled "The winner, and still champion. . . ." the crowd jumped up and booed for 15 minutes...