Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Committee- woman, playwright's agent, author (My Crystal Ball); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A spinster suffraget. she once retorted to the Lucy Stone League: "I've been trying hard for 50 years to change my name without success." She was an anti-Prohibitionist ("all wet"), good friend & backer since 1918 of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Berlin's streets are paved with smooth asphalt which becomes eel-slick in wet weather. The problem of slippery asphalt is more acute in Berlin than in most cities for though the city is as far north as Hudson Bay, little snow falls there. Rainy weather is normal weather from November through March...
...Judiciary Committee for a look at its constitutionality, after which it would go to the Finance Committee to have its revenue raising features examined. Loudly fearful that such procedure would cause delay, Connecticut's Republican Bingham, a "lame duck" who would like to see his name tagged to Wet legislation, attempted to execute a slick trick by moving immediate consideration of a 3.2% beer bill of his own. His motion was defeated 48-10-23 after Democrats hotly accused him of seeking "partisan advantage' But this vote was only on parliamentary practice, gave no true clue...
...trickle. It took a full hour for the Barcelona Water Works to get up fighting pressure. By that time El Siglo was a $4,000,000 bonfire, belching hundreds of feet in air, impossible to extinguish. When firemen were finally able to fight, the best they could do was wet down nearby buildings including El Banco Hispano Colonial from which cash, securities and gold had been hastily removed...
...bottom of Long Island Sound, close to Manhattan Island, sea-exploring Dr. William Beebe last week slapped at a wayward fish, caught a clam and a starfish, without getting his trousers wet by the cold, filthy water. A new-type, little submarine demonstrated for the first time by Simon Lake, submarine pioneer, enabled Dr. Beebe to make his gesture...