Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Architecture, Professor Munro's "The Invisible Government", and Professor Carver's "This Economic World" will all be reviewed. The list also includes "Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard", "Crusado", "Debonair", "Alice in the Delighted States", "Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing", "Bad Girl", "The Virgin Queene", "Reeds and Mud", "Perversity", "Mr. Weston's Good Wine", and "They Could Not Sleep...
...sense of satisfaction that Seniors condemned to enjoy their vacation in Widener Library or misguided individuals who a week ago sought the cooling solace of the northern mountains will read this morning accounts of tennis matches and baseball games cancelled on account of rain, of lacrosse contests played in mud and drizzle, and of snow welcoming the Crimson cohorts to Virginia. A cool, and even somewhat damp, vacation was enjoyed by all of those north of the Mason-Dixon line, and it is not unpleasant to the less charitable to know that their more favored brethren fared little better...
...little business going. One day he came in from rabbit-hunting with a wound in his foot. He had shot himself. An insurance company paid him $5,000 for the loss of a toe. Something told him where to put the money; not into the drug business, but into "mud sills," the big logs men were using then in Kansas to bolster their oil derricks...
...people could see three horses rising to the last jump. The horse in the middle, which had no rider, interfered with the one on the inside and made him stumble. The jockey fell off, got on again, and rode after the other horse which, staggering and covered with mud and sweat, Tipperary Tim, 100 to 1 shot, crossed under the wire a winner. Billy Barton, the horse that had stumbled, with Tom Cullinan up, was second at 33 to 1. There was no third. "Where did that fine horse stumble?" said the King of Afghanistan to the Countess Dejumilhac...
...bromide is any expression that has been used enough to become nauseating. Examples: i) Here's mud in your eye. 2) A little learning is a dangerous thing. 3) Finders keepers, losers weepers. 4) It's a sad world, mates. 5) One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Drug store cowboys are fond of bromides...