Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rates but Agriculture will be kept well inside the wall. On War debts he is relatively open-minded, except in the case of France. Once, traveling in Europe, he was stopped at the French border and fined for trying to smuggle a box of cheap cigars. A Dry turned Wet, he expects to raise large sums from the legalization of liquor...
Promptly captured, Nelson Nash, 24, confessed the crime, started to lead police to the scene, when a white mob scooped him out of the hands of the Law. At the end of a rope Nelson Nash rose in the air while 50 bullets peppered his wriggling black body. Wet wood was all that prevented the lynchers of Nelson Nash from burning him at the stake...
Chief motive power behind Repeal in the Senate was no longtime Wet but a longtime Dry from Arkansas-Joseph Taylor Robinson. In 1928 Senator Robinson ran for Vice President as a Dry beside Wet Al Smith. In 1931 he was still doggedly opposed to his party's Wet turn. At a Washington meeting he thundered Bryanesquely: "You cannot write on the banner of the Democratic party the skull & crossbones of an outlaw trade." But after last year's Chicago convention, Senator Robinson, loyal Democrat, swallowed his personal opinions...
...Massachusetts Baby Volstead Act. The proposed amendment provides that repeal shall be approved by special conventions rather than by the state legislatures. Consequently, when the votes go to the polls they will vote for delegates only, and every voter must know definitely whether he is voting for a wet...
...make a fingerpainting a large sheet of wet glazed paper is spread flat on a marble or linoleum-covered table and big blobs of colorful sludge dropped on it. This is sloshed about with both hands, the finger nails, even the elbows, without conscious effort at drawing, until the amateur artist likes the result. The teacher is then called and the work given a name-"A Greedy Horse with a Long Neck," "Men Fishing Before They Are Drowned"-and the picture, the table and the child set aside to dry. Inventor Shaw is extremely proud of the fact that after...