Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas A. Edison's view that college graduates are too finicky--they want white-collar jobs and don't care for the sweat and the muck that are not dissociable with some kinds of hard work. Clerical employment appears congenial to them; the grind and the grief of mechanical engineering does not. At the bottom of Mr. Edison's gravamen against the collegian is his disinclination to work. He says a man is set for life at twenty-one, and if he is a dullard then, a dullard he will remain to the end of his days...
Screamings accusations devoid of any foundation on facts sensationalism for the sake of sensationalism for the sake of sensationalism, and mud-slinging for the mere joy of feeling the muck will sooner or later lose its force and its influence on the minds of the public--which is in the end really composed of "people who think", not of people who swallow...
SOLDIERS FIELD, May 11.--In the most spirited baseball game yet played this season on Soldiers Field the CRIMSON nine, last year runners-up for the World Championship, today completely subdued the muck-raking band of players which purported to be the ball team of the Harvard Lampoon. The final score was 23 (approximately) to 2. Four members of the Lampoon team were forced to retire from the field after the first inning owing to the excessive heat of the day and their own poor physical condition. Their positions were taken by ringers from an East Boston aggregation, each...
...Other papers are taking up the gage of battle and London rocks under the strain. It is interesting to speculate on the adoption of similar policies by our "wide-awake" American press. The possibilities are limitless. Imagine the staid old "Evening Transcript" taking in washing, or that specialist in muck raking,--the "Boston Orifiamme"--offering to insure any of its subscribers so rash as to venture into Back Bay after dark...
When all is said and done, Mr. Monteux deserves no end of praise. Ever since the doubtful days of two years ago, the orchestra has steadily improved until it now approaches its old standard again. No one may conduct Beethoven and Wagner like Toscanni, nor Brahms and Strauss like Muck, but Mr. Monteux is probably the most well balanced conductor we have had in years, and he excels in the contemporary music of the Russian and French Schools...