Word: mire
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...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...
...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...