Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passos had any of the malignant designs imputed to him, his wrecked figures would have been of a more heroic stature. But he is no progandist, no muck-raker. It is a pity that he cannot yet receive the judgment by standards of literary criticism to which he is entitled, instead of the hasty appraisals of conventional opinion. HAROLD A. LARRABEE, '16, 1G. October...
...ordinary, prosaic life beyond the pale of campus or club. Is this criticism just? Perhaps the logical reply is that the college in order to serve its proper function must be 'quite detached from the narrowness and pettiness of everyday existence; that it should not wallow in the muck of sordid partyism, but that it should cling to a rational idealism, attempting to apply its formulas worked out in the experiment station to the unscientific and illogical conditions of an unreasoning world outside...
Wounded during the first year of the war, he came to this country, where he has behaved in an exemplary manner ever-since. Even before we entered the war he was responsible for no propaganda of any sort. His case bears no resemblance to that of Dr. Muck and others who assumed an attitude unfriendly to the United States. Most of his concerts have been for the benefit of families of musicians of all nationalities impoverished...
...show announcement last week is absolutely false. Used in the literal sense the expression is quite proper, and very appropriate as used. The unfavorable meaning attached to it is only a development of modern times. I suggest that the "student of Arabic" abandon such profitless muck-raking and keep to literal meanings. May I suggest that the "Occ." which he writes after his name might well mean "Of coarse caliber?" FORD HIBBARD...