Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nominee Smith, last week, famed chefs prepared a mud...
Tired of concocting, weasling. Nominee Smith suddenly turned on the famed chefs, told them to eat their own mud pie. He issued a lengthy statement. He explained his every vote as a New York Assemblyman on bills connected with prostitution, gambling, the saloon. He said...
...Mud Pie: "I denounce as unfair, unmanly and un-American this slanderous attack upon me and my record. I am glad to have this matter taken out of the whispering stage and put into the open...
...office, last week, by Nelson Schwab, a son of the late Dr. Louis Schwab, Cincinnati Mayor in the gang-ridden days of the late Boss Rud K. Hynicka. All but one of the Taft ticketmates were beaten, too. People said it was because the Citizens' Republican Committee "slung mud," i.e., preached reform so militantly that its foes became goodfellow martyrs...
Machiavelli has become little more than an adjective signifying ruthless scheming duplicity. The present biography makes it quite clear that a man is behind the adjective, a true Florentine who slung mud and cobble stones in street-fights along the Arno, swapped bawdy yarns over a noggin of wine, curried favor with whatever political power there happened...