Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view it from the point of view of a "Dry," but those who are "moist" or "Wet" can hardly disregard this aspect of the problem...
...trout. One was 14 in. long. After lunch he napped. In a cold drizzle during the late afternoon he reeled in eight more trout, bringing his day's catch to the legal limit. Sunday newspapers and White House mail were dropped into the camp from an Army airplane. Wet, bleak weather drove the President & party back to Washington early...
...General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. (retired), campaigning for the Republican senatorial nomination. A Dry, he was endorsed by Governor Gifford Pinchot. He made 126 speeches (preceded, he said, by 126 silent prayers). But neither speeches nor prayers availed him. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, a Wet supported by Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine, last week won renomination by a 350,000-vote majority...
...opponents a three-run lead in the first inning, Devens, heralded Crimson ace, huried masterful ball for the remaining eight frames, while his teammates came from behind in two rallies to win over a hard-fighting Pennsylvania nine by a 5 to 3 score on Saturday afternoon. Despite the wet condition of Soldiers Field and the occasional showers, Devens managed to retire ten Pennsylvanians with case and settled with Powhida for his defeat in an unlucky pitcher's duel in Harvard's first game of the season...
...Geneva. A sound film, this internationally-centered set of reels includes brief addresses by such men as Sir Robert Cecil, Curtius, Ghandi, Gibson, Henderson, Hitler, Ramsey MacDonald, Mussolini, and George Bernard Shaw, among others. In the portion of the reels dealing with prohibition, La Guardia and Mrs. Sabin, of wet affiliations, hold forth...