Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a certain class of students in this college who under favorable conditions revert to the mucker-collegiate type, long since out of date, and insist on behaving in a way which can only be described as intensely and drippingly wet. Such are the kind that perpetrate the subway riot tradition, and upon this class the Vagabond proposes to do slaughter, mayhem, and bodily violence, when and if a riot breaks out this evening. His tactics may be all wrong, he may only be adding fuel to the fire but at least he will have given outlet...
...Chicago Athletic Club from his friend George Jenney that he was not scared to go into politics, was elected Alderman from the Second Ward. On April 6, 1915 he was elected Mayor of Chicago, with the aid of notorious Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, on a Wet-Dry, White-Black, German-British platform. "Freedom for Ireland" got him his re-election in 1919. His third election (1927) he won on a promise to "punch King George's snoot...
...this gray and wet week, the Vagabond has, however, found an item of peculiar cheer. He has never known which of the nine Muses that of Music is (some day he means to learn the names of all of them), but today he is making a short hegira to the Music Building at 10 o'clock to hear Mozart's Concerto in D minor. The score is written for two pianos and is one of the best known and most interesting of the composer's works, and the Vagabond knows that he will hear it ably rendered by Mr. Frank...
Capt. Malcolm Campbell, British racing driver, ordered his mechanics to give the fishtailed, monster-snouted Bluebird a shove. Slipping into first gear he pointed her up Daytona Beach toward the judges' stand. A white mist hung over the course and the sand was wet. When he was going 80 m.p.h. he shifted the Napier motor to second speed. At 125 m.p.h. he changed to high. The motor settled into a rising drone like the hum of an enormous bee. At the end of the ten-mile course, without stopping for the usual tire change and mechanical adjustment, he turned...
Like President Hoover, Finland's President Relander appointed no hot-blooded youngster to head his Prohibition commission but sapient, 75-year-old Edvard Björkenheim, counselor to the Ministry of Agriculture. Ready at hand for Wickersham Björkenheim were Wet statistics released by the Government last week. During 1930 Finland, with a population of 3,600,000, convicted 11,147 men and 2,390 women of violating the Prohibition law. Police confiscated 1,052,486 litres of illegal spirits...