Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honking motorcades, truckloads of young street sheiks making faces and tooting horns, brought to a close last week the last of the Purge primaries, in New York's 16th or "Gashouse" Congressional district, Manhattan. It had been the perfect picture of a Tammany fight, with plenty of mud-slinging at the finish, between two Irishmen alike as two of Paddy's pigs in outlook except that one of them had been cursed by Franklin Roosevelt for breaking out of the New Deal pen and the other had promised to be good...
...president, the relay spree celebrated the inauguration of service over the league's new head quarters station. At Brainard Field, Hartford's municipal airport, A.R.R.L. had had its station WIMK to cover the world until the 1936 Connecticut River Valley flood covered the station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College's departments of Electrical and Radio Engineering. Under President Woodruff's leadership, $18,000 was appropriated...
...statue of Washington carved by the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, which for 29 years had ignominiously squatted "in the mud" in Seattle, Wash., was upped to a 27-ft. pedestal near University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery. Found under Washington's feet were three undignified objects: a whiskey bottle cap, a punctured balloon, and a bemired note to "Dear Harry." The note: "Hiya, egg. . . . What have you been doing lately? Do you still go on those long walks like we used to? 'Bye, you snow bat.* Can you read this? If I thought you could...
...through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back of the neck. By the time they had plugged the hole with a piece of pine, the submarine was resting on the bottom of the river. They cranked it across the Shrewsbury, made it crawl obediently through the mud and, as a demonstration for skeptical townspeople, even made it scoop up old tin cans and clamshells. It was, says Simon Lake, the first submarine that really performed. Rivals have claimed the same thing for their inventions...
...favorite (in spite of a muddy track and top weight of 130 lb.) after Seabiscuit was scratched. Leaving the post, the four-year-old Riddle colt was not in front as is his custom. Menow*, a three-year-old rated as merely a sprinter, splashed mud in War Admiral's face all the way round, won by eight lengths. The great War Admiral, in his first defeat in twelve starts, finished out of the money for the first time in his career...