Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe the repeal of the Volstead Act is, quite possible," said Peters, "but I doubt that the Eighteenth Amendment can ever be repealed. State control of the saloon, not Federal as advocated in your plan, is to be preferred. I don't believe the difficulties caused by having a wet state adjoining a dry state will be very great...
...drys. There recently has been a rumor that those in charge of keeping clean the Business School dormitories were in the habit of collecting hundreds of bottles which found their way to the basement after being emptied of their alcoholic content, and that these bottles, on being resold to wet representatives, became a vitreous bonanza for the collectors, who netted tidy for tunes...
...Harrington '30, and Paul Reardon '32, of the Harvard Debating Council, outlined their plan and indicated what they felt were its advantages. Alexander Lincoln '95, former Assistant Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts and at present general counsel of the Constitutional Liberties League, then put forward an extreme wet point of view, advocating complete repeal of the 18th Amendment and restitution of the whole matter to the state governments...
...economist and as a supporter of the dry cause, has consented to participate in the discussion from the prohibitionists' point of view, while Alexander Lincoln '95, former Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and at present general counsel for the Constitutional Liberties League, will present the wet angle...
...unenviable and ridiculous light. Author de Miomandre is no admirer of Mars, says some bright things about his dullness: "As soon as he saw anything the least stormy on the conversational horizon, he abruptly took the sharp, superior attitude of someone who, under no circumstances, is going to get wet...