Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale's 20 yard line. Yale's ball. Pond made two yards around right end. The quarter ended with the ball on Yale's 18 yard line. The ball was carried to the other end of the field to a fairly dry spot, while the two teams mopped the mud from their faces. With the exception of Lee's 15 yard run neither team had been able to display its new formations. On account of the rain and mud the game had degenerated into a punting duel...
...journalistic enlargement on the facts. Not so. The newspaper with the largest circulation in America?a paper itself not as old as this divorce case? a paper that, therefore, should be the best barometer of what the public wants, finds it profitable to add its quota to the mud thrown...
...court of law. But this paper, the Daily News (Manhattan) pillories him before the public eye, championing the cause of Mrs. Stokes. It made even Mr. Stokes' comparatively innocent appearance? a harmless if not a handsome face? the subject of an almost libelous cartoon. And verbally it piled on mud to the dimensions of a plaster cast...
From the moment the suit was begun he fought it not merely with tooth and nail, but with all the mud and filth he could reach, hurling the dirt in every direction...
Moral: Journalist, before thou seekest to cast out the mud from thy brother's hand, fling down the filth from thine...