Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHAT PRICE GLORY?-The picture of two U. S. marines at their trade-mud on the outside and alcohol within...
...drooping walrusness of his once black moustache. What is there to mark him from the obscurity out of which he came? To date, only that he?one of the greatest constitutional lawyers in the Senate, one of the most conscientious, careful-minded men?is the greatest discoverer of political mud in this generation. This will be all?unless Mr. Fall or Mr. Sinclair or Mr. Doheny goes to jail. If one of them serves a jail sentence, then that finely molded head of Senator Walsh becomes much more?it becomes heroic, the chiseled likeness of a patriot, vigilant, unforgetting, bold...
...blessing of El Nino proved overabundant. With their arid lands made a paradise, the natives found themselves economically impoverished. Along the Dry Coast, roofs, never made rainproof, fell in; houses, made of mud, sank to the ground in soggy heaps. Water-filled boats sank. As the waters rose, cattle, gardens, buildings, whole farms and villages were swept from the earth into the sea. The largest losses, practically total, were suffered by the guano* industry. Islands off Peru from which 119,000 tons of guano (nine million dollars' worth) were mined last year, were stripped of their ancient deposits...
...cannot understand how a man's belief in evolution can interfere with his being a Christian if he wants to believe in Christianity. It seems to me that whether a man prefers to believe that his original ancestor was made out of mud or whether he thinks in the other hand that his ancestor was an ape he ought in either case of appre- ciate the social value of the teaching of Christ. I am not in the least discomposed by Mr. Bryan's attitude toward evolution, nor do I like him the less...
...nimble 33, 9 finished- 9 steaming, sweat-gilded, bloody-eyed horses, plastered with mud from cannon-bone to belly, and 9 taut riders bent to their necks. In front was Double Chance, owned by Fred Archer and D. Goold, at 100 to 9. Neither the horse nor its rider, Major J. P. Wilson, an amateur, had ever before ridden the course...