Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening of March 7, where Hardin, Allen, Hancock, Logan, Putnam, Anglaize and many other fine counties in the state will be represented and do some "booming" for Willis, something which seems to hurt TIME terribly. There is not a thug, saloon parasite, grafter, bootlegger, and not a "big wet" in the state of Ohio who will not welcome with glee the slurs which TIME has spread out before the people. If I am not mistaken, the thousands of women voters in Ohio who know that Willis has fought for their homes and firesides against the blackest beasts that ever annoyed...
...squad will have a mother among us" said Mrs. Roger Merriman addressing the Harvard Dames yesterday. A motion was passed that each member of the crew be invited to tea where they will be personally cautioned. "Every one should guard against the horrid colds' and coughs that result from wet feet" she said...
...past eight years controlled the government is the most corrupt, the most venal and the most vicious body of men by which this nation has ever been afflicted."* At Denver it was "the snoopers and spies . . . like the lice of Egypt"-an anti-Prohibition speech (Denver being wet). The League of Nations took a lashing, too, as the Angel of Vengeance passed on to Albuquerque. Here he said: "I expect someone to say that 'Reed is merely destructive; he wants to destroy existing conditions.' Of course! Every time you want to change anything you must alter or destroy...
...offered by the gentleman from Maryland is a subterfuge. Why does he not move to repeal the Volstead Act, if he is in earnest? . . . The law is here and here it will remain. The law will be enforced, irrespective of what Maryland may think about it. ... I am a Wet-I would probably vote for a legitimate motion to repeal, but never ... for any such subterfuge as he now proposes...
Next day, Wet Leader Linthicum took what satisfaction he could from a parliamentary victory, forcing the whole House to go on record on a Prohibition issue for the first time this session. But again his antipoison amendment lost, 61 to 283, with 89 members not voting and 91 absent...