Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abolition of all mud or artificial kicking tees...
...matter of choosing a Secretary of the Navy had occupied the President for more than a month. The existing situation made it difficult. A man must be chosen who had public confidence. He must not be open, at this mud slinging time, to attacks on account of his connection with oil businesses or with any other very profitable corporations. The present investigations made a lawyer more desirable at the head of the Navy Department than an ordinary business man. But almost any able and active lawyer might have a client who could be spattered on his reputation. A selection from...
...boil which has been festering in the side of Princeton for years has at last burst, covering the whole body with its disgusting discharge. Never have conditions during Bicker Week been as revolting and degrading as those of the last four days. Slander, gossip, and mud-slinging have been the rule instead of the exception. Yesterday witnessed a method of club election which would have put any decent slave-dealer during the worst days of human barter to the blush. Men were passed or rejected in a manner that would make the gorge of any decent man rise. But even...
...rule abolishing all mud or artificial kicking tees and the one advancing the kick-off from the 40 to the 50-yard line counter balance one another. The first makes it much more difficult to make a long kick and the second lessons the distance by 10 yards. The two teams are brought closer together...
...when some one saw flames and sparks issuing from a chimney in Matthews Hall. But the bathrobe clad curiosity seekers returned disappointed to their beds; the ringing of the fire apparatus, the raucous, joyous cheering of the students, the laboring of the heavy engines as they sank into the mud, were all for nothing...