Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ireland (where he made historians shudder by his part in the massacre at Smerwick), Ralegh went to Elizabeth's court and began his rapid rise. Biographer Thompson does not comment on the legend that attributes Elizabeth's first favors to the tale of the cloak and the mud-puddle. However it happened, he was soon generally considered the Queen's lover. According to Thompson, there was nothing in that, but he was certainly one of Elizabeth's favorites. He soon had enough capital to go, like Drake, into piracy on a large scale. Unlike Drake, however...
Flowing through a couple of inches of mud on the Business School field, the Varsity Increase team downed a veteran Tufts outfit Saturday, 6-1. Experience didn't prove of much value to the losers as the newly-formed Crimson forward line displayed decided improvement...
...Record was printed by candlelight, its presses hooked to an emergency circuit. The Dansville, N. Y. Breeze failed to blow for the first time in 52 years. And at Hartford, Conn., the Courant, one of the oldest U. S. newspapers, was forced to lift its venerable skirts above the mud of the Connecticut River and skedaddle to the plant of the New Britain Herald...
Wherever they rose, last week's swollen yellow rivers made news (see p. 17). At the same time, they played hob with news-gathering organizations by filling presses with mud, wrecking power lines, deranging communication. Total damage to newspaper properties soared above...
...worthwhile. . . . It is harder for me to get 5? to buy a lead pencil than to get $1,000 to teach hobbies to CCC boys. . . . At the present time there is a vast flow of silver-I won't say gold-spreading out all over the country like mud. . . . For God's sake put some of it into stone and steel...