Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Carver is a supporter of Hoover, and is advocating a dry ticket, believing that a wet plank either would not be acceptable to Hoover, or would seriously impair his chances of reelection. The main opponents of Professor Carver in the primary are also supporters of Hoover, but on a wet ticket...
...Maine Democrats, convening at Portland last week, were at first reluctant to tie up their twelve convention votes to any one candidate. On a poll, however, they voted (286-10-245) to instruct their delegation for Governor Roosevelt whose strength thus rose to 103. The Maine meeting also went Wet...
Handicapped by rain and wet playing fields, the University nine made a discouraging start on its 1932 bid for the collegiate diamond crown...
...Wet Parade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an honest and clever adaptation of Upton Sinclair's sloppy tract on Prohibition (TIME, Sept. 28). Without the radicalism of its original, it delineates the evils of drink and shows, without partiality Wet or Dry, that guzzling to excess brings misery. The heroine (Dorothy Jordan) is the daughter of a charming but besotted Southern gentleman (Lewis Stone). His suicide and the inherited alcoholism of her brother are enough to make her drink shy. She has an even better reason. In Manhattan, where she finds her brother drunk in a hotel, she meets...
...Wet Parade is thus a horrid but exciting reprobate's progression, replete with all the disasters that can befall a drunkard as he lurches toward the grave. It is brilliantly acted by a fine cast, coherently constructed and, unlike D. W. Griffith's miserable picture The Struggle, manufactured in the present tense. Good shot: a 'legger's plant in full operation, showing the printing presses for fake labels, the process of dousing whiskey bottles in brine to make them look as though they had come off a boat...