Word: mires
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...realize that their ideal nation has abandoned their policies? Will they, too, see the impracticability of communism, or will they try to bring Russia back once more to famine and wretchedness? They had better make the attempt soon, for Russia is gradually pulling her giant strength out of the mire and is getting too strong a footing to be easily pushed back again...
Some of the cartoons used by the opponents are boomerangs. One of them represents the Censor as a weeping, hideous creature, defiled in political mire. Either this has no application to the question, or it attempts to describe the persons who will examine our films,--the Commissioner, Governor, and Council and Courts. If it has any effect, it will bring the fundamental institutions of government into popular contempt. Could any anarchist strike a more nasty blow at the foundations of society...
...abhorrence of this uncleanliness. We must take an active part in the cleansing process. Politics will be dirty as long as the dirty minded are allowed to monopolize them. The only way by which the high-minded citizen can remedy the evils he bewails is to wade into the mire and fight for the community. The college man who has the courage to take such a step will not be a pioneer. He will have as an example the greatest of Harvard graduates--Theodore Roosevelt...
...Eliot's criticisms. Instead of a crawling retort, let us frankly admit that we share the regret that an element among us does exist so lost to any sense of personal decorum that they constantly imperil the reputation of their chosen college and drag its fair name in the mire--only qualifying the admission by the demonstrable statement that the number of offenders is less than their apparent ubiquity might indicate. A. ALEXANDER ROBEY...
...complicated sense of humor, there might be enough to stir the ready laugh in the sight of a group of men on the ground jumping up, running forward a few steps, and then making a head-on dive to the ground again, ploughing through the cinders or the mire...