Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patriotic anthems have a way of making trouble for symphony conductors. Great Karl Muck was driven from Boston for not playing "The Star-Spangled Banner'' at a Wartime concert. Arturo Toscanini was beaten by Italian youths when he refused to play the Fascist Hymn in Bologna...
...weeks Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's men have been wading through the black muck to which fire last December reduced Istanbul's law courts building. All Kemal's fire engines and all his men had not saved the archives holding all Turkey's legal documents from the time of the early Sultans to 1923. Muck were the old debts, the old judgments, the cash reserves. What Turkish firemen had not done, it appeared last week that Turkish melons...
...were cross-connected. Sewers were leaky. Last June 29 a heavy rain overloaded sewers near the Auditorium, flooded its basement. Three days later another cloudburst broke two of the Congress' sewers, filled its ice storage house and covered its food-packed basement three to six inches deep with muck...
...gone a-raking into other people's barnyards. Her Mother India, a sensational account of conditions among women in India, still rankles in many a Hindu breast. Isles of Fear, a survey of the Philippines, annoyed Filipino patriots. This time Authoress Mayo, with sleeves rolled up and muck rake firmly in hand, has waded into the U. S. soldier-pension mess. Statistics and indignation darken her pages like pitch forked dung. By the time she has finished turning over her unsavory material its odor is strong enough to make even a standpat Congressman hold his nose...
Authoress Mayo charges that the real "forgotten man" in the U. S. pension muck is the actually disabled veteran who is often too self-respecting to join the scramble for aid. Pointing indignantly to European pension systems, Authoress Mayo asks: "Did they, too, profane the name of their War-disabled, using it as a mask for racketeers? Did they, too, bestow the title of 'veteran' on men who saw no service beyond a training camp or a draft board office? Did they class with battle casualties persons kicked by a mule or frightened by a tree-toad...