Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect, their failure is not entirely inexplicable. Aside from the fact that the Fusionists picked a not particularly strong candidate who made some costly mistakes in the campaign, the methods of the Fusion press were not best calculated to win the support of the voters. There was too much "mud-slinging", too much discrediting not only of Tammany but of New York...
...this!--must think the taxpayer who has assumed that the rehabilitation of the disabled soldier has been conducted by the best means available to the government. It is disappointing to have to believe that the men charged with so important a public duty should stood to petty politics and mud-slinging. If the institutions have really been backward in their methods, they should frankly concede it and proceed to improve themselves; for no educational institution is worthy of that name that is not willing to listen to suggestions. Col. Forbes, moreover, acts as if he were anxious to divert...
...work of the Romanticists. Someone has used the simile of a road to point out the difference between the two schools and, in a way, the failure of both. The road is muddy, and unpleasant underfoot, but each side is lined with roses. One man looks at the mud, and the other at the roses, but neither gets an adequate idea of the road...
...couple of falls at the beginning of the second lap, when W. Tibbetts, of Worcester, leading, with Thomas Campbell of the 1924 team a few feet behind, tripped on the corner, but got up just in time to spill Campbell, who was forced to hurdle him, landing in the mud at the side of the track. Campbell picked himself up and ran on, but was unable to make up the distance he had lost, and did not place...
...pleasanter to sit by the warm fire of a cold winter's evening, and imagine one's self lolling on the "paepae" of some picturesque Marquesan hut, listening to the chatter of Exploding Eggs, the native valet, and Chief Seventh Man Who Is So Angry He Wallows in The Mud, than it would be to explore in the flesh those far-away places, to broll under the tropic sun, flee from the shark and the enraged swordlish, or suffer the stings of the "nones" in deserted Haapa, where the last dregs of the Typee race wait for death to release...