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Word: mud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, a few years younger than Senator Dill, more charming than the usual caricature of a suffragette, one of the leaders of the feminist invasion of Washington through the mud of 1913; once a Chevrolet mechanic who was rewarded with the famed "yellow suffrage car" in which she toured New York State; a chicken farmer; a collector of book plates; a licensed attorney; the manager of the $5,000,000 estate left to her and her two brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Of Washington | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

What Anne Brought Home?The gentle bridegroom victorious by making a fish farm out of a mud hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...thoughtless pre-Lenten frolic on a Shrove Tuesday morning one hundred years ago in old New Orleans. Through the gumbo mud, the open ditches, along the plank sidewalks, under the street lanterns, paraded seven drunken students, back from their schools in France. As they whirled past the colonial guard station, a startled guardsman gave pursuit to the celebrators, chased them pell-mell down into the Old Quarter, by the Place D'Armes, past the St. Louis Cathedral, along streets lined with white houses embroidered with iron balconies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fat Tuesday | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...denied advocating thugging of Senator Heflin. Said he: "I facetiously remarked that apparently the only thing to do with a fellow like that is to have a couple of men take him out some where and roll him in the mud. He must be made to look ridiculous. The Senator, however, hasn't sense enough to realize that the suggestion was a facetious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Heflin v. Priest | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...plume can be found for today's drama it waves upon the vizors of the "debunking" playwrights. In the first squad of their foremost legion marches Maxwell Anderson. He collaborated with Laurence Stallings to write What Price Glory? in which War's bravura of blah is ground into the mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatrack, Revelry | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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