Word: mire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion Mr. Mortimer had not given Mr. Forbes money as the former had testified, who told that Mr. Mortimer had sworn to "get" Mr. Forbes for not joining him to make illicit profits, who declared that Mr. Mortimer had threatened to drag his wife's name in the mire when she would not give fake testimony to ruin Mr. Forbes...
Pride, a dismayed figure, is not permitted to obscure his mortification in the mire toward which, a witless moment back, he strutted, but is caught midway in his tumble, for all posterity to jape...
...Mortimer, his wife's name, the mire...
Such a divergence of opinion can be explained by the fact that Captain Greenough's team at times was brilliant to an extreme and at others wallowed in the mire of mediocrity. Each opinion could be well backed by Saturday's performance...
...mental astigmatism in the leaders of one's own country, to freedom of speech at a university, human fallibility is almost overwhelming; and all but the stoutest hearts wallow in a slough of despond. The transcendentalist had the happy faculty, which we unfortunately have not, of soaring over this mire from the cradle to the clouds...