Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority as the "World's Finest." Let the drinker beware of the European barman-he likes to skimp on his liquors and trust to melted ice to fill the glasses: tell him "pas trap glacé" (not too much ice) or, jocularly, "pas trap mouillé" (not too wet). GRAFTON D. DORSEY
Your report on Senator Couzens was rich. He voted for the fanatical Jones "Five & Ten"' Law, he drinks Wet, he is ruggedly sincere. Ha ha ha. That...
...Tuesday was plainly a raw, wet and characteristically a Democratic day. . . . I have constantly maintained the Republicans would encounter disaster this year. . . . The next two years will contain an amplitude of difficulty for the Administration...
Illinois. Most spectacular of Democratic senatorial victories throughout the land occurred when James Hamilton Lewis roundly defeated Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick's ambition to be the first woman elected to the Senate. Senator-elect Lewis, ever the begloved, bewhiskered, bowing gallant, had made a Wet, witty campaign against Mark Hanna's Prohibition-weasling daughter. He had convulsed his audiences with mock embarrassment at being "pursued by two lovely ladies" (Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill was a Dry independent also-ran), with references to Mrs. McCormick's attempt to be a "dripping Venus rising from the sea of Chicago." Even...
Ohio. A particularly. hard blow to President Hoover, the Republican National Committee and the Anti-Saloon League of America was the defeat of Dry Republican Senator (by appointment) Roscoe Conkling McCulloch by Wet Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley. Senator McCulloch's fuss-budgety little colleague, Senator Simeon Davison Fess dropped his duties as G. O. P. national chairman to campaign himself hoarse for the Republican ticket. Senator-elect Bulkley (whose friends already talk loudly of him as a presidential possibility) won urban votes largely by a demand for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. His Wetness pulled his Dry friend George...