Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate voted 65-to-20 for the 18th Amendment. In 1919 it passed the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto by the same vote. Since then Wets have repeatedly claimed that their strength in the Senate was growing. Last year, on the basis of recent elections, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment estimated that not less than 27 Senators were ready to submit the 18th Amendment to the States (TIME, Nov. 15). Last week Wet claims were severely deflated in the Senate where a test vote showed 15 Wets as against 55 Drys...
...Senate chamber and, failing, traipsed off yelling the "International" (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week another, far larger "army" invaded Washington. No handful of disgruntled partisans were they, but more than 10,000 orderly men who differed from the silent crowds that watched them pass only in that they were wet, hungry and out of work...
...Pulling his black weeds about him, he picked his way into a drug store, ate a sandwich, drank a glass of milk, telephoned Washington's chief of police that they were there. That night some of his men slept in the District National Guard Armory. The rest bedded down wet and without supper in blankets and gunny sacks in the trucks, which parked at the base of Capitol Hill. Father Cox & staff sought the shelter of the Continental Hotel...
...great painters did not consciously strive for all the shades of significance which plodding German critics like to read into their works. They just painted. It is therefore the surrealists' premise that all that is necessary to produce art is to stand in front of a canvas with a wet brush in your hand and give your emotions a free rein. Surrealist Crotti is so certain of the value of his products that he rejects oil paint as too impermanent, works only in lacquer. All his colors are especially ground for him with varnish or turpentine as a base...
...Cambridge a foot of slush lies in the Square, mute tribute to a Street Department which feels that destruction of snow is a unique act of God. Galoshes appear, gutters run, taxis spatter, professors swear, officials sit. Students get wet feet, students get colds, students consider Stillman, students do not consider Stillman. Women slip, men assist, men slip. Clothes are changed, there are no clothes to change. Umbrellas are lost, cars skid, fenders crumble, the Yard is beautiful, Mt. Auburn is not, officials sit, board walks are shoveled. Cambridge is slush girt. Cambridge is noisy and hurried, and surpassingly ugly...