Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House from Maryland, Missouri, California, Delaware, Michigan and Pennsylvania spent a twitchy 24 hours last week under the threat of public exposure. The Senate Lobby Committee, pursuing its investigation of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, had commandeered from that organization's private files a confidential report on the Wet and Dry politics of Congressional districts in those six States and the personal drinking habits of each Representative. The report had been prepared by big lumbering Carter Field, onetime Washington correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, now a freelance political writer.* Indiana's Dry Senator Arthur Raymond Robinson...
...Amazing as it sounds," continued the Canon, "the foundations of St. Pauls [which towers to a height of 365 ft.] are only four and a half feet deep. Beneath the cathedral there is only six feet of earth and then a bed of wet sand twenty feet deep. Springs pass under the cathedral from the northeast to the southwest and keep the sand wet...
...must have wet sand!" cried Canon Alexander fervently. "We must have wet sand...
...explained that the 99-year leases on several buildings near the cathedral are about to expire. If they are replaced by modern steel structures, the deep foundations necessary will drain the springs now flowing under St. Paul's, cause its wet sand foundation to dry out, to shrink...
Next day Chairman Wickersham might have observed that the tone of headlines largely reflects the particular tenets of the journal which it adorns. Across the top of an account of his speech carried in the dripping-Wet New York Herald Tribune was blazoned...