Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tinkham wanted a Washington Hall of Fame and New York's Celler, a Negro industrial commission. Georgia's Vinson would build the Navy up by $760,000,000 to full treaty limits. New York's Bacon proposed bus and truck regulation by the I. C. C. Wet bills, including a constitutional amendment by Connecticut's Tilson to return liquor control to the States, glutted both houses. Texas' Blanton touched a Dry low by seriously advocating the use of the Army, Navy, Militia, Shipping Board, and Inland Waterways Corp. for enforcement...
...Massachusetts and Rhode Island each had five delegates snipped off their Republican convention strength. Big delegate gainers due to reapportionment of Congressmen based on 1930 census: California, 18; Michigan, 8; New York, 7. Big losers: Missouri, 6; Iowa, 4; Pennsylvania, 4. Republican headquarters is hard pressed for operating cash. Wet Republicans are withholding their money from a Dry party. Community chests have taken funds that would otherwise go to party politics. Industrial disappointment with the Tariff to bring back good times has frozen much Republican revenue. To bring in enough money to keep national headquarters solvent until the June convention...
...another son, an infant, who likewise lacks sweat glands. He is too young to go ducking himself. So she dowses him from time to time with scuppers of water. Neither child can sleep unless his night clothes and mattress are wet. They take daytime naps in their damp cellar, with moist sacks for pillows...
They have a sweatless neighbor woman who must also wet herself for comfort...
Funnyman Ade's theme-song in this backward-glancing booklet: "Not wet-not dry-just history." No believer in the saloon's return, he can call up visions of its past with a dry eye, a drily humorous tongue. Though he gives a fair imitation of a man straddling the Prohibition fence, on p. 162 he drops over on the Wet side, admits to membership in the Association Against the 18th Amendment...