Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think the source of supply, the manufacturer and distributer, are the particular ones to get. . . . I can get the small ones almost any time." He promised that his agents would "stay within the law in enforcing the law," that his actions would be "as unobjectionable as possible" to Wet Manhattanites. To show him their mettle, his subordinates promptly pounced on a $30,000 Bronx cache of wines & beer, and a truckload of beer from New Jersey, chief Manhattan supply...
...Minor) whose name Commissioner Woodcock bears. An upland species of snipe, highly prized by sportsmen and epicures, the woodcock has a long, long bill and practically no tail at all. Its plumage is heavily mottled- brown, black, buff, grey-protective coloration for thickety ground. It can thrive only in wet (or at least moist) places, where it can probe for worms without bending or breaking its bill. That it may spy its enemies while it feeds, its eyes-large, nearsighted, goggling-are close together near the top of its head. Found from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, it is migratory...
...last week a platform was being concocted for the State Republican Convention by its Resolutions Committee. Outside the meeting room in the Stacy-Trent Hotel, newsgatherers waited excitedly, for in there with the committeemen had marched Dwight Whitney Morrow, nominated fortnight ago to run for the Senate as a Wet (TIME, June 30). Would he prevail upon the State Republican leaders, traditionally Dry in word if not in deed, to make the platform express his revolutionary personal views? If he did, it would be the first time since the passage of the 18th Amendment that its repeal had been demanded...
...days later, the New Jersey Democrats, traditionally Wet, issued their platform. Said they: "We congratulate our opponents upon their public espousal of this fundamental Democratic doctrine" [States Rights]. Rev. James K. Shields, Superintendent of the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, warned his fellow Drys that traditional, militant Wets were not so much a danger to their credo as "the Morrow type . . . much more to be feared: the quiet, dignified, scholarly churchman of evangelical persuasion, who never rants but nevertheless stands for the action that would be fatal to the 18th Amendment...
Covered by a wet cloth at night, patted, scraped and moulded by day, a huge mass of modeler's clay on a draughting table in the offices of Todd, Robertson & Todd, Manhattan engineers, was slowly taking form last week as the preliminary sketch model of a gigantic group of buildings. Reporters realizing that this mass of clay will soon evolve into a $250,000,000 development, probably the largest, most important single architectural project ever undertaken in New York, clamored for latest details...