Word: wetter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Mr. Marshall proceeded to list rainfalls from 1825 to 1924 to show that, with only two exceptions, a drier-than-normal four years was followed by the defeat of the party in power; with only one exception, a wetter-than-normal four years heralded continuance in power...
Senator McKinley's "bone dry" harangues, had not availed against Colonel Smith's impassioned anti-World Court tirades. The question of whether Smith can win out over George ("Wetter-Than-Niagara") Brennan, who secured the Democratic nomination, promptly came to the fore...
...interposed Gallicism as W. J. Locke, Booth Tarkington, Leonard Merrick, is the most insidious invader of the English novel, the other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...
...part she sang beautifully; by the time she reached Strauss's "Mit deinen blauen Augen" she had recovered all her powers and from then on she gave a flawless and impressive performance. Of simple charm was Warlock's "That Even I Saw"; Respighi's "Pioggia" rivals Strauss's "Schlechtes Wetter" in picture painting; "From the Brake the Nightingale" by Mme. Homer's husband, Sydney Homer, equals Macdowell's beauty, and dispenses with his cloying sweetness; while the same composer's "How's my boy?" is of strange power, reminiscent in general spirit of Synge's "Riders...
...through the piece as Colonel Hutt. The audience chuckles perforce every time he appears on the stage and is put into roars of laughter during his inimitable interpretation of inebriety. In these days of drought one appreciates all the more so natural and true-to-life a reminder of wetter times...