Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tendency to blame him for every cow that went dry has vanished. . . . The President has accomplished some difficult navigation in rough seas. More people have tried to rock the boat than usual in a depression. The boat rockers have succeeded in getting about everybody's feet wet but the President has seen to it that they haven't capsized the ship...
While the Chatterton-Lukas combination is riding on busses and getting wet, his lordship decides to elope with the sister-in-law, and we see him going hell-for-leather through the night. We then hear a crash, and back through the drifting fog comes the distraught figure of the sister-in-law. Next day in the London domicile there is the Chatterton scene, in which her ladyship sacrifices her reputation to save her brother from mortification and despair. We are left with a fleeting glimpse of Mr. Lukas at the wheel of a powerful...
...James Thomas Sharkey, 32, Irish-born, Boston milkman, went the first prize of $25,000. He used to get his cigarets wet while delivering milk...
...streets of Dover, N. J., were wet with rain one afternoon last week. An expensive coupe rolled up the main street, parked impudently in a bus stop. A woman got out, went into a drug store. The man who was driving saw rain-caped Policeman Charles E. Ripley come over to him, but did not notice the concealed interest with which the officer observed his license plate-V-2880. "Don't you know you're parking in a bus stop?" Policeman Ripley began pleasantly. Then, before the driver had time to reach the two revolvers in his pockets...
From a distance and with a hostile Dry eye Mrs. Nicholson watched Wet Mrs. Sabin's convention. When it was over she publicly challenged Mrs. Sabin to debate Prohibition with her. She said: "No one could see your meetings and not be im pressed with the number of women of wealth present. May we ask you how many of these have felt the pinch of poverty that goes with liquor or who will be the victims if the saloon, or any other place where liquor is openly dispensed, comes back? Are we not right in saying that...