Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lively debate followed in which Dickens' immortal characters were discussed with the mud slinging of a political campaign. One would have thought that Steerforth was even then continuing his evil ways and that Barkis still pursued his trade of carrier. It is a tribute to the influence of the better element of the town that Mr. Salmon was at last convinced of Barkis rectitude and sobriety...
...will be essentially the same as that which triumphed ever Middlebury last week with a score of 17 to 47. With weather conditions somewhat improved, it is expected that better records will be possible. E. C. Haggerty '27, who did the five miles in last week's rain and mud in 30 minutes 10 seconds, came in first against Middlebury, and is expected to show good form this afternoon. R. G. Luttman '28, who led Haggerty up to 25 yards from the finish line and placed second, is not in this afternoon's line...
...there was a casualty. Prince Henry, third son of the royal house, galloping at the head of his company of Mercian Hussars fetlock deep in mud, dawn a country road, was caught in the open by advancing Wessex tanks, spitting death from their three-pound guns. He dismounted and stood grinning by the roadside in his steel helmet, crying: "I guess we're out of action!" even before the umpires wrote him down as "killed in the field of battle...
...champion had not had occasion to deal with that chop-stroke for some time. The sort of men who make their bread and butter by betting on mud-horses* were ready to wager that it would bother him. It is true that Tilden has a chop-stroke which-although he does not often use it-is fully the equal of Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since...
...good green-gangsters who manicured, shampooed and mud-massaged the course of the Oakmont Country Club (Pittsburgh) for the last week's National! Amateur Golf Championship were exceptional fellows. They entertained a lively interest in the sport. They knew all about Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.-may even have known, indeed that his father, a Georgia lawyer, is associated in business with William Gunn, father of Watts Gunn, the 20-year old youth whom Jones brought North to the tournament to "get some experience in championship play...