Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt is easily the world's most newsworthy personage and since the questioners are presumably the world's ablest newsgatherers, it is obviously impossible to believe that such a meeting could actually occur without producing anything more printable than a conference of kerosene tank politicians in a mud-flat filling station. Nine times out of ten, however, that is what happens. The correspondents can rarely think of anything worthwhile to ask the President; if they do the convention of mystery that surrounds all sorts of government impels the President to demonstrate his unique ability to say nothing with...
...their programs in the dark, but rather trying on those who are punctual. The play slowly creeps to its big scene?a revival meeting where Rocky Comfort gets religion and writhes on the floor like so many small boys trying to get as dirty as possible rolling in the mud...
...effect on Harvard. The minute a college president takes sides in a political discussion, his impartiality on any subject he may subsequently take up, be it political, educational, or merely the weather, is bound to be called in question by political smear-artists whose job it is to throw mud. This mud cannot help spattering the University and sullying its name in the academic field. Glenn Frank, for instance, may be a fine politician, and a great discovery for the Republican Party, but his activities did not redound to the advantage of Wisconsin. Nor do Nicholas Murray Butler's annual...
...centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed 8-ft. piles, distributing the weight evenly on a 60-ft. pad of mud...
...wreckage, they missed the machine-gunning from the air of the first boatload of survivors to head for shore, an attack that killed two already wounded seamen. The boat, holes torn in its planking by bullets, was filmed later. Because the cameramen buried their equipment in the mud when a Japanese launch headed out from the opposite shore, they missed the final Japanese machine-gunning of the abandoned hull, the reported boarding of the Panay by a Japanese search party...