Word: mire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took an hour, when the roads were in good condition, to get to Boston. In the Spring, when the roads were thick and deep with mud, it was a common experience for the passengers to climb out of their coach and lift the wheels out of the mire. The service was more or less irregular, and persons waiting for the omnibus at the Cambridge end, were able to pass the time pleasantly in the tavern until the time of their departure...
Garibaldi v. Garibaldi. Colonel Ricciotti Garibaldi, rushed to Paris by the French police, was confronted there by his brother, Sante Garibaldi, rabid antiFascist, who shouted: "Traitor! How could you drag into the mire our family name, our glory and our honor...
...vice reformed by the site of beautiful columns, and is Harvard such a den of iniquity that it requires a new chapel to pull it out of the mire? Students may at times seem obstreperous and unruly but beyond that "Heniso't qui mal y pense...
...party ambition betrayed him to his enemies. He is no longer the symbol of a lost cause, but a grey-headed politician, and the reverence that he once commanded lies turned to scorn. Charlatan or genius, fool or master, he and his glorious reputation will be dragged in the mire of politics...
...modern male still has a chance to pull himself from the disgraceful mire of effeminacy into which he has been steadily sinking since the razing of the Victorian forest primeval. Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P., has recently been warming the Atlantic cables with a revolutionary, proposal for all men to grow beards...