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Word: mudding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public prints with characteristic acumen seized upon this case as juicy and slightly smelly news. Political nerves in general are so jumpy these days that any chance to sling a little mud is snapped up avidly. Consequently only by reading General Craig's memorandum is it possible to realize why Hagood should be punished, regardless of any political significance his case may have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IN RE HAGOOD" | 2/28/1936 | See Source »

...hockey series between Harvard and Yale, despite pre-season prognostication, promises to be one of the most evenly matched series of the season; for both teams have produced the same kind of records for the season, records in which the good performances stand out against the bad like mud on a white fence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

News was bad for Italy in the North, but there again no stigma was attached to regular army troops. Insistently from Addis Ababa went out a report that in a nine-day battle northwest of Makale, spearhead of Italy's northern advance, Ethiopian warriors had captured three mud villages, 18 tanks, 33 field guns, 175 machine guns, 2.605 rifles, had wiped out an entire brigade of the Fascist Oct. 28 Division, a loss of at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: The Front | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

With the Roosevelt Administration making a awing to the Right in anticipation of November's elections, Felix Frankfurter is receiving mud from the New Dealers and Republican alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...fact that more Republicans than Democrats have spoken and are scheduled to speak in the future) has given up his claim to consideration as a gentleman and dubbed himself a politician pure and simple. Discontented with impartial treatment, he has reduced himself to the level of the meanest country mud slingers by maligning Columbia publicity because he could not get partial treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TIME FOR ACTION | 2/8/1936 | See Source »

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