Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great man was explaining the custom of "plucking," and the Vagabond listened. Outside those blood red curtains, snow was whirling to the gentle stop that tomorrow would be mud, but within there was a sort of dark brown warmth. To be sure, there was bric-a-brac, there was the sky blue oriental, there were landscapes, and there were the chandeliers, but this did not matter; for there were outstretched legs with two shiny boots at their ends, and there was the cupped ear. "Liquid jade," he mused, and was reconciled...
...only four times, caught three naps, the longest being two hours. She battled with fog over the English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela she was forced down by low oil pressure into a "sea of mud." With improvised tools she made repairs, flew on, thought to powder her nose while crossing Table Mountain at Cape Town. Mrs. Mollison did not do what her husband did at the end of his record flight: crack up in landing...
...Lassiter tossed the soggy slippery ball to Marling who waded 24 yd. for a touchdown. A few minutes later the game was over, Yale 19, Harvard o, most decisive score since 1915 when Harvard won 41-to-0. Yale men, apparently bewildered by rain, wind, mud and the excitement of seeing their team win its second game this year, rushed down and tore up their own goalposts...
...Armstrong's Utah team, which has not lost a Rocky Mountain Conference game since the one the Colorado Aggies won, 12 to 0, in 1927, played the Colorado Aggies again last week, clinched its fifth Conference Championship in a row, 16 to 0. In three New York mud-puddles. Fordham nosed out Oregon State on a safety, 8-to-6, Columbia & Syracuse and Holy Cross & Manhattan played scoreless ties. Iowa State's Captain Magnussen performed a strategem suggested to him by Iowa State's new Coach Ossie Solem. He stood 20 paces away from a pile...
...much of the Company's film in taking pictures of rain drops, and rain clouds, and often of sheets of rain which could only have been caused by a washout in some overtaxed rain shower machine. After all it does rain in Wisconsin and Cambridge, too. And they have mud in Russia. Besides this precipitation the stage hands are constantly showing off other wonders of cinematic engineering, giving a very Californian air to the island of Pago Pago in the gulf of Borneo...