Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kinds of tax avoidance which were legal, the kinds that were illegal evasions. One speech of his was regarded as such valuable advice on how to save on taxes that Manhattan's Chemical Bank published and circulated it. Washington watched alertly to see if some of the mud kicked up by the President's tax-dodger hunt might not land in New Dealer eyes...
Happy were the editors of the CRIMSON when, in 1876, a grinning new born babe appeared in the middle of Mt. Auburn street. Ere long they began taking if down on the swamp across the river, where they rolled it in the mud and pulled its hair and fed it grape juice and then called the score 23-2 in their favor...
...grew up and became known as the Lampoon. But each Spring the CRIMSON still takes it across the river. Although the ground has grown too and thee is no more swamp, it always manages to rain for the game. So the grinning Lampon editors still get rolled in the mud. After awhile it began to hurt when their hair was pulled,, so now they all have crew cuts. But the score is still...
...ever happens beyond the yelling of many voices for peace. And it is probably also true as the cynic claims that those who yell hardest for peace today are first into the trenches tomorrow. "Yes," sneers the R.O.T.C. man, "I'll be an officer when you're in the mud...
...colleges have their traditions, some more impressive than others, but they all are typical of undergraduate life, and those certain indescribable characteristics which make for college spirit and atmosphere. Indiana, Purdue, and countless others, have annual mud battles between Freshmen and Sophomores; many educational institutions for young ladies make May Day festivities an impressive annual affair. Thus it goes; every college perpetuates the traditions which it finds most suitable and enjoyable, and these same traditions typify and give the college a sort of earmark or trade label by which it may be known...