Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ended the three-week trial of Bishop Cannon and Ada L. Burroughs, on charges of violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (TIME, April 23). The Government had claimed that, whereas Bishop Cannon and Secretary Burroughs had reported only $17,300 expenditures in the Bishop's 1928 campaign against Wet Presidential Candidate Al Smith, one contribution alone from Hooverite Edwin C. Jameson had amounted to $65,300. These and other funds, the Government alleged, had been used in Virginia and all over the South. "Bishop Cannon was shooting a double-barreled gun with a single trigger," declared the prosecutor. "Miss...
Painting. Of the 42 paintings which went to Manhattan's Grand Central Art Galleries, some arrived still wet from anxious last-minute daubs. Yale, as usual, scored again with a prize-winning oil by 21-year-old Gilbert Banever showing a white-suited Mexican with water...
...from the men's locker rooms into the tan-tiled swimming pool of Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club last week said: "Ladies in the Pool; Please Wear Suits.'' The ladies in the pool were the members of that little band of champion swimmers whose wet faces and shining legs make a semi-annual fresco for newspaper sports-pages. The behavior and the appearance of the group remains the same from season to season; its personnel undergoes minute but steady variations. Helene Madison, who used to paint her fingernails crimson and swim a faster crawl than...
...Wet grounds necessitated the postponement of the Columbia and Pennsylvania baseball games last week. The games will be played off later in the season as double-headers at Cambridge...
...Scotland, tired and wet after a day's fishing, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain changed his socks and sat down with a warm drink. The telephone jangled...