Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benchly's short on How to Sleep and How to Wake Up, turned out to be funnier than we thought it was going to be, although the ending was rather wet. All in all, the "Uni" has a successful billing for the first half of the week, and we look forward to "The Tale of Two Cities," which follows this program...
...Washington's birthday 4,000 spectators lined up in ankle-deep slush along the river. Virginia's Governor George Campbell Peery refused to wet his feet, missed the show. Presently Pitcher Johnson wound up, plunked one dollar into the river, placed two more well up on the opposite bank. Official distance: 286 ft. 6 in. Representative Bloom, "too busy" to attend, refused to pay the citizens of Fredericksburg $100,000, pointed out that the legend was impossible anyway since the dollar did not exist in Washington's youth...
Latest reports from Franconia Notch show that the snow has been extremely wet the past two days, but fresh southwesterly winds are now making the surface into corn snow which should make for faster times...
Gagging and coughing, the little child struggled back to the bank. Graciously shielded behind the willows of Minimum Publicity he sneaked around behind the other huddled children. Wet and chastened from his first encounter, the little child America too huddled despondent, gazing wistfully across, as the tears streamed down his face
...Smith, 62, with deeply silvered hair, his once full face already growing hollow with age, is a Conservative. Those who in 1928 mistook the fact that he was a Wet for the fiction that he was a Liberal, had long ago seen their error. To Al Smith the New Deal was a Strange Deal, full of Socialism, Radicalism, Communism. In Washington he stood up before the du Fonts and the Raskobs not to speak to them but to his party. He spoke not as the statesman of eight years ago but as the New Yorker of 30 years...