Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kemp, fiftyish, mother of two children, herself daughter of one of the first families of Tangipahoa Parish, a woman who had never put her hand into political mud, looked on with dismay at the whole scandalous proceeding. Then she took a hand herself, offered to resign as Congresswoman to stand for nomination in regular primaries if her opponents would abandon their plan to hold a "citizens' election." To the Kingfish, sitting in his New Orleans hotel room surrounded by bodyguards, the news of her offer was a severe jolt...
Some 3,000 music-lovers who jammed the doors of the sawdust-covered stock pavilion of University of Wisconsin's agricultural college forced curly-haired Violinist Fritz Kreisler to slog through mud to a rear entrance, postpone his concert until he had his shoes shined...
Last year the sages of the ages had it all doped out that Yale could win and the Blue proceeded to mop up the mud and slime with the crimson jerseys in a masterful fashion. Harvard had lost to Brown and the Army and had eked out bare margins over Dartmouth and Holy Cross. To be sure, Yale hadn't won any championships, but at least she had lost by smaller edges. So the debacle in the Bowl did not surprise the dopesters. But someone is going to get fooled today, for there probably could not be found...
...total of $8,500,000 on the race. Limelight went to the post, through a sea of glistening mackintoshes, a 5-to-1 favorite. Up to the quarter-mile Limelight held the lead, seemed likely to win his nth race of the season. Then up out of the mud pounded a very dark horse indeed, Raymond, a starter at 33-to-1. Raymond's jockey was a scrawny little South African named George Nicholl. Raymond's owner was the great South African diamond tycoon. Sir Abe Bailey. Raymond finished an easy winner. His Majesty's Limelight...
...Kick Off," the present attraction at the Paramount theatre is a relief to football fans who have been nauseated by the prevailing type of gridiron films, because it combines a credible plot with a more than vivid sketch of a real football game. The crowd, the mud--oh, that mud--and the boisterous enthusiasm contribute to climax the picture with a thrill. One might well offer the management of the theatre that, in order to provide atmosphere it put its renowned cooling system into operation and require the patrons to wear their overcoats...