Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he had finished his address, Senator Robinson's fellow-members went climbing over their desks to pump his hand in congratulation for a deed many of them had long lacked the nerve to do. But the price to be paid for trading parliamentary mud with the "Kingfish" was soon exacted. Returning to the fray, the button-nosed Louisianian accused Senator Robinson of double-crossing him on patronage, asserted that President Roosevelt had told him [Long] to keep Senator Robinson "in trouble," revealed that Senator Robinson had made his brother-in-law Federal Rice Administrator in Louisiana. "Threatening...
...never walk down there," the experienced bottom-saunterer continued. "I shove myself around on my stomach in ever widening circles--my technique would shame the most adroit pollywog. The clouds of mud I stir up make using a light about as useful as trying to shine it through a thick London fog. You can't see anything and if you're not careful to keep your suit full of air, you will squash up into your helmet...
Cause of development: complaints from rural mail carriers that mud is no respecter of streamlined shapes...
Meanwhile at Loyang in Central Honan Province an army of sweating, blue-clad coolies was busy as ants rolling, grading, carting dirt, dumping fill for another of the four key air bases in the Nationalist Government's plan. Not since the Middle Ages has the dilapidated mud-walled city of Loyang seen such activity. Beneath a row of dusty cliffs, Loyang, long before the Manchus glorified Peiping, was the capital of six dynasties of Chinese Emperors. There is nothing to show for it today but miles of imperial burial mounds and the hope that lies in the workshops...
...more painful that they are not realized. In Hei Tiki, as usual, the chieftain's daughter takes up with a rival tribal chief's son. Her camera-conscious father shakes his battle-ax, the black warriors jump into their canoes and there is the customary stone and mud-pie fight around the village walls. "Hei Tiki" is the love charm which girls of the Maori tribe wear around their necks. Worst shot: a group of natives with their backs to the camera yammering around a pile of holy sticks...