Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daniels-once a pilot in the Royal Air Force -whose parish in New South Wales is as extensive as all England, with a request that the Anglican Church Missionary Society buy him a plane to expedite his parish visits. His motor car too frequently stalls in mud. His camel is painfully slow. The Society will buy him a 'moth light' De Havilland...
With a rumble of luggage and a rattle of loose mud-guards, the Jitney Players, a peripatetic troupe composed largely of Harvard and Yale men, have descended upon New England. Bearing the masks of drama, echoing the gallantries of Provence, the college performers have invaded and captured the summer colonies of the East...
...Deputy Ernesto Hidalgo of Guanajuato. His valorous championship of the petition was greeted by cries of "Swine, you have taken Catholic bribes! Let him talk himself into the mud! Let's talk about the Dempsey-Tunney fight!" (News of this match was then being received over the radio...
...much crime and more misery had his colossal, visionary projects come to this. From New York-where Poe had frequented his Fordham bar-he had ridden to Oregon, sailed through the Pacific, out to Hawaii, up to Alaska, recruiting henchmen in every bar, trading famously, until he reached the mud huts of San Francisco and bargained for an empire with the Spanish padrés and governors. He had gained it by merely promising to guard the Sierra passes against Americans and Indians...
...present diamond mining is carried on by the large companies chiefly with automatic machinery. The final operation of separating out the diamonds is performed by flowing diamond-pregnant mud over greased tables of corrugated iron. While the mud and such other minerals as it contains flow on over the tables, the diamonds are caught and held by the grease...