Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspaper critics have been loud in proclaiming the fact that the weather conditions of the "Battle of Mud" of two Saturdays ago were the worst under which a Harvard team has ever played football. A consultation of the football archives, however, shows that there have been other battles of mud in the past which were quite as muddy...
...last year in which P. D. Haughton '99 played on a Harvard team, the Yale game was played in "rain, pools of water and mud," and in 1912, the chronicler speaks of a Princeton game played in the "worst sea of mud imaginable," thereby proving conclusively that the expression "sea of mud" was not used by sport writers for the first time two weeks...
...Ambassador to Germany: "As protest against the Lausanne Treaty, I gave a lunch to 50 distinguished men at the Yale Club, Manhattan. The sense of the meeting as reported was that if the Senate ratifies the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey, the Stars and Stripes will be trailed in the mud by the weakest and lowest of all nations...
Excavations made in the mud of the Stadium during the past week, have unearthed a surprising number of articles which were lost in the general confusion of the Yale game, a week ago Saturday. According to a report made to the Harvard Athletic Association by Mr. Dennis Enright, superintendent of grounds at Soldiers Field, umbrellas and raincoats head the list of discoveries, some 15 of these having been found...
According to the New York World, however, there must exist a great multitude of Babbitts, for it says editorially that all who attended the great beauty contest last week at Madison Square Garden were such. Even the master mind of the carnival was a Babbitt, a manufacturer of plastic mud for the complexion. And it goes without saying that Mr. Valentino, who bestowed the golden apple upon the fairest, was under his role of Paris only a Babbitt. What the World failed to note was that the sun did not rise out of the west, nor the moon revolve...