Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who use it ever keep grateful thought of the many who struggled for long months against mud and darkness to bring it into being. . . . May our peoples always work together thus for the blessing of this Kingdom by wise and noble uses of power that man has won from nature...
Despite the King's allusion to "struggling against mud," Queensway has in fact been cut in sandstone so firm that the "sand hogs" never had to work under air pressure. In 1925 the chipping was started by Princess Mary with a pneumatic drill. Two pilot tunnels, each 12 ft. in diameter, were cut out from Liverpool and Birkenhead until in 1928 only a thin curtain of stone hung between them in mid stream. Out to chip this down and shake hands under the Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug...
...their guns, the four officers were bundled over the side and into the tiny glory hole of one of the junks. Three days after their capture, when the junk was anchored in a muddy tidal creek, they made their first attempt at escape. After floundering all night in oozy mud they were glad to get back to their prison. Soon one of them was sent off with a note demanding ransom. The other three settled down to wait for rescue. When searching planes came over, the pirates hid themselves and their prisoners in the reeds or shifted their anchorage...
...passing. Academician. Dr. Tugwell is not the kind of man who ordinarily is an issue in U. S. politics. When he was being questioned by Senators (TIME, June 18), Iowa's Senator Murphy demanded: "Did you ever follow a plow?" "Yes, sir." ''Did you ever have mud on your boots?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know how hard it is to get a dollar out of the soil?" "Yes, sir." All these "correct" answers referred to the time when as a college boy Rex Tugwell used to work during vacations on his father's fruit farm...
...decorated pianos for Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Lilyan Tashman. He illustrated Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant and an Anthology of Immoral Poems for the Walpole Press. One Sunday, he decided to sculpt. Lacking materials, he fashioned a statue from coat hangers, the hinges of an ironing board, some mud. His ambition is to give California an open-air windowless architecture...