Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heaven-Descended Mud...
Elegantly clad British diplomats have lived uncomfortable lives for some months at Angora, that insupportably nouveau capital which the young Turks are erecting on a site now chiefly mud. Their efforts have been directed toward negotiating a treaty whereby British-mandated Irak would be confirmed in the possession of that major portion of Mosul granted to her by a ruling of the League Council (TIME, Dec. 28, LEAGUE). The Turks have consistently refused to accept the Council's adjudication...
Hedwig and Wanda. The Marshal's arrival at Suleiopek precipitated further revelations. To eager news gatherers he confided: "Hedwig's greatest joy is to run barefoot through the forest. Not long ago she ran through some mud and showed me proudly her dirty legs...
...conference. One of the youngest leaders, a 19-year-old girl from Latvia, was afraid and wanted to be locked in one of the cabins for the night so as to be safe from Indians. Mrs. Wynaendts-Francken of Holland, relative of Edward Bok, went about in the mud wearing sabots. A young lady from Egypt started on a hike in a pair of patent leather slippers...
...Beavers temporizes about going to the mourners' bench. That same night he gets a backful of buckshot from Peck Bradley, a murderer out on bail. Religion picks up. Bloodhounds bay for three days and nights in the back hills and Bradley is brought in to jail, crusted with mud but full of bravado. Sharing his contempt for the law and seething with Old Testament, the community grows ominously quiet. Abner suggests a plan; feet tramp, a rope is knotted and what was Peck Bradley twists slowly in the air near his ambush...