Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pupils, Abelard had, according to Compayre, five thousand in his school in Paris. And when he retired at one time with but one pupil to a "desert place," students finding his retreat followed him. "Cities and castles were deserted for this Thebaid of science. Tents were set up; mud walls, covered with moss, rose to shelter the numerous disciples who slept on the grass and nourished themselves with rustic dishes and coarse bread...
...there will be early showers today, followed by fair weather with light westerly winds and a rising temperature. Hence we are in a quandary. What shall be the vein of the annual Class Day editorial? Shall it be wet humor or dry humor, shall we indulge in a little mud-slinging or merely raise a cloud of verbal dust? A question which our editorial minds, after three days' holiday, refused to answer. So we put on our raincoats and departed, leaving it to the office boy to decide which of the following editorials to pull from the pigeon hold marked...
Screamings accusations devoid of any foundation on facts sensationalism for the sake of sensationalism for the sake of sensationalism, and mud-slinging for the mere joy of feeling the muck will sooner or later lose its force and its influence on the minds of the public--which is in the end really composed of "people who think", not of people who swallow...
...ordinary dining places were not so well provided. They ranged all the way from luxurious halls of marble to dark, narrow mud-huts. The most imposing one we took at first to be a great temple, but on closer inspection of the floor and walls we found stains of Inca coffee and condor-eggs, unaccountably thrown there by careless eaters. A number of these places, that seem to have been especially popular with the students, had curious Inca names over their portals, such as "Gualdophi" and "Karelos", which are untranslatable, but seem to have been proper names. "Gualdophi", strangely enough...
City politics in Boston have from time immemorial been marked by mud-slinging and questionable tactics. For years, the few weeks preceding the election of a mayor were filled with bitter campaigning, of which no good citizen could well be proud. Cliques and gangs fought hard among themselves, and when all was over, the string of vituperation rankled on both sides. In latter days, these crude and unskillful methods have been discarded perhaps for those of a subtler and more effective nature; and the advent of cleaner, less personal contests seemed to be in sight...