Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country schoolhouse. "That seemed to make religion important and added interest to the hymns. When you sang 'Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known,' you were sufficiently interested at least to walk through the mud and rain, if not sufficiently brave to go into the den with the lions...
...gold brooch of the Viking period was scratched up from the mud of a pond in the province of South Bergenhus, Norway, by a flock of geese in charge of a small boy. The curator of the Stavanger Museum pronounced it a genuine antique...
Nothing is quite so easy to do, or so unfair in the ''doing, as throwing mud at former prophecies that haven't "panned out." Hindsight, now as previously, is much simpler than foresight. All the same, there was heard last week considerable criticism of the bankers and industrial leaders who last Fall predicted great prosperity this Spring. The Spring has come, but profits in most lines of industry are getting leaner each week; in some industries they have disappeared...
Another foreigner was run out of the village amid a hail of sticks, stones and mud. And one Miss Harmon, who had accompanied Mr. Six, was hit on the head with a stone and sprained her ankle, running from the Goddess of Mercy...
...calls of allegiance to all Republicans and Democrats, were severely criticized for warming up for their race so long before the call to the barrier. Apparently no harm has been done, for although much water has since flowed under the bridges, they but made themselves fit for the great mud battle of March and April in Washington...