Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the energetic presidency of Maryland's plump Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson. She flayed all Wet Democratic presidential possibilities, warned everyone within earshot that her women would bolt their party as they did in 1928 if a Dry were not nominated. Of New York's Governor Roosevelt she said: "This candidate, while mentally qualified for the presidency, is utterly unfit physically.* He has failed to show the kind of leadership we want in our President by his vacillation and dilatory tactics. . . . Let us not be trapped or betrayed by any such high-sounding phrases as States' rights...
Because President Hoover is rated as a thoroughgoing Dry, none of the Wet delegates was surprised when Mrs. Sabin first announced that her organization would not call at the White House. Hearing this the President's aides became excited, far it would never do, they thought, for the White House to welcome the Drys only to be cut by Wets. Besides, the W. O. F. N. P. R. was more important socially and financially than the N. W. D. L. E. L. Therefore word was passed unofficially to the Wet convention that the President would be glad to see them...
...Thank you. I am very glad to have it," replied the President as with a characteristic little nod of his head he took the document. The Wet delegates then lined up and went filing past the President as he stood before his desk. The soft Hoover hand shook 534 times and 534 times the Hoover formula of welcome was repeated : "Very pleased to see you . . . very pleased to see you . . . very pleased...
...Wisedon, owned by Miss M. Lark, at 100 to 8: the Welsh Grand National at Cardiff on a wet course, with Vinicole second and Quite Calm third. John Hay Whitney's Dusty Foot was scratched...
...shoulders. As regards Prohibition, I begin to fear that as a nation we are rapidly losing all sense of proportion. . . . God forbid! Are all virtues, all qualities, all ideals, all ability, forcefulness, statecraft, integrity and record of a candidate to be swept aside by the question: 'Is he Wet or is he Dry?' And yet we are not a primitive people...