Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, all loyal Pittsburghers like "praiseworthy accomplishments": but, I think, they like truth even more. That the day's result was a fluke was evident to any one who saw Pitt "stumble" over the goal line after a fumble in a perfect sea of mud...
...scene in "We Moderns" comes when a crowd of youthful revellers crashes down on London roofs in a blazing dirigible. For some reason, it is about as exciting as shaking hands with a rubber glove full of wet mud in a school boy initiation...
...Cleveland the Hip Sing Tong, at a banquet to visiting delegates, served them slender shoots of bamboo with eggs which had been buried in mud for scores of years...
...Eagle. Rudolph Valentino has pulled himself successfully out of the mud. The last drying flakes of his tour in favor of Mineralava Beauty Clay have disappeared, and he is once more a foremost favorite of the screen. This latest picture is among his best. It was adapted from the novel of Pushkin, and treats of a Russian youth who (figuratively) thumbed his nose at the Tsarina and considerably displeased the royal household. He becomes a Cossack and makes love, without too much exaggeration, to Vilma Banky...
...Harvard team caused a genuine sensation in 1892 by trotting out to do battle arrayed in brand-new, shiny leather suits. In a preceding game, the University players had each soaked up thirty pounds' weight of mud and water, and they were taking no chances on the weather. It was the day of mass formations and the famous "Harvard flying wedge". Legs were broken and skulls fractured, and as the casualty list mounted, a cry went up all over the country against the brutality of football. When the last whistle had blow in the 1904 game, the sidelines were packed...