Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rivers of New England spent last week recovering from their stroke of autumn apoplexy. As they shrank back to normal, the mills that they used to turn, the power plants they used to keep humming, emerged from the flood covered with muck. Winter began to shut down and the muck froze. Much New England industry was crippled for months to come...
...potentialities for wholesale excitment which Cline offers are endless--lycanthropy, vampirism, astrology, and an isolated manor on the Hudson. All the paraphernalia are there, and it is irritating, having settled oneself for an evening of keeping hair and scalp connected, to have it descend into the customary muck of sex-repressions and eroticism. Mr. Cline commences by peopling his hall of horrors with supernatural terrors, and ends with a heavy-handed accent on the sexual...
Thirteen years ago the Boston Symphony, superb under Karl Muck, visited San Francisco, and stirred civic-minded Westerners to shame for the flickering, undernourished group of players that went by the name of the San Francisco Symphony. They made big appropriations, swept clean, ousted Conductor Henry Hadley, called Alfred Hertz from New York. Then 43, there were as many gold stars on his record as there were hairs in his beard, stars that went all the way back to his earliest days in Frankfort, when, a square little Hessian boy in skirts, he pulled himself up onto the music piano...
...Oberammergau. Last year there was no festival at Bayreuth, because the theatre was undergoing necessary post-War repairs. This year, however, from July 19 to Aug. 20, it is being resumed under the stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral leadership of Karl Elmendorf, Karl Muck and Anton Witek. Tristan und Isolde was the first production. It will be followed by Parsifal and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Critics announced the productions were brilliant-worthy candles for the shrine...
...horns and an elongated goat's tail. There may be added a hairy pair of goat's legs, but they are rather superfluous in a country that carries 24,000,000 automobiles on its highways. ... The motto seems to be, in the editorial sanctums where all this muck is compounded for public consumption, If it makes good, lewd reading-go the limit. . . . THE GOAT MEN HAVE SCALED THE BARRIERS AND COMMAND THE CITADEL...