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Word: mudding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conspicuous recent instance is by a writer who dared not sign his name. . . . With a little less than libel, a trifle more than backstairs gossip, this writer in whose veins there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. . . . All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary-who was one of the principal guides along the road to the disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Johnson v. Meyer | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...which is interesting for itself. Though Eastern readers may have difficulty in believing everything they see on these pages, the truth of practically all can be substantiated. Finally, Gene Fowler is a writer as high above the usual biography hack as his Timber Line is above the East Boston mud flats; whatever your interests, whatever your previous knowledge of the characters, "Timber Line" will satisfy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/2/1934 | See Source »

...plump, well-fed gentleman in steel-rimmed spectacles set out from Iowa last autumn to sell blood & death to the U. S. Press. With his brief case full of fire, smoke, steel, mud, gore, torn limbs and burnt flesh he visited nearly every State in the Union, leaving behind a trail of agony and chaos. Last week he rode into Louisville, and before he rode out again he had left his mark on the Courier-Journal-50th newspaper to buy his photographs of the World War. Sweeping on through Washington, Wheeling, Erie, New Haven, he paused in Manhattan to contemplate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Salesman of Death | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...scratches on it when he skinned some foxes a week or so before, but that seemed nothing. In his years of trapping he had had hundreds of scratches, skinned hundreds of foxes. Trapper Macdougall went on following his lines, coming home at night to sleep alone in his tiny, mud-chinked hut near the deserted sporting camp whose summer patrons he guided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tularemia | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...members many of the men who are essential to the real importance of the University." By which it seems that he imputes that the officers which the Army and Navy have sent here are of no importance. Has the CRIMSON in its desire for sensationalism degenerated to the petty mud throwing of ward politicians? Even though the Army and the Navy send some of their best men here to be Professors and instructors of Military Science and Tactics, is the college to accept the policy of your editorial writer and, just because a few students cannot get a book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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