Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lying Dutch country that can be flooded if necessary. But even with fortresses and canals and emergency breaches in the dikes, the Flanders Plain offers the least difficult road to Paris and the French channel ports. It is a road that should be captured in summer. Flanders mud is a potent delayer during the sloppy months of the West European winter. The Belgians hope they can remain neutral in the next war, and King Leopold is a strong neutralite. But practically Belgium must ally itself with the enemy of its first invader...
...Congress into special session to revise Neutrality, Franklin Roosevelt left Hyde Park, went down to the sea in the cruiser Tuscaloosa. He rounded Cape Cod, radioed "Well done" to the Squalus salvagers who last week dragged the sunken submarine two miles toward shore until it stuck in an uncharted mud lump. The President proceeded to his mother's place at Campobello Island where, 18 years ago, a ducking in the icy water was followed by the infantile paralysis attack which crippled him. His vacation plan: to cruise off Nova Scotia, try for giant tuna...
...years ago the American Writers' Congress overwhelmingly voted The Big Money best novel of the year. That was on June 6. Three weeks later, Dos Passos' name was mud with the Marxists. His heresy: an article called Farewell to Europe, damning "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy" in Spain, thanking heaven that "the Atlantic is a good wide ocean...
...John, coupled in the betting with Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps's Gilded Knight,* was still an overwhelming favorite-despite the mud-when 30,000 horse-enthusiasts crammed the mid-Victorian stands at historic old Pimlico, on the outskirts of Baltimore, for the 49th running of the Preakness Stakes. Second choice was Challedon, who had finished second to Big John in the Derby and was reputed to like sloppy going...
...Johnstown take the lead, just as expected. Down the backstretch he kept in front. But it was no runaway, like the Derby. Gilded Knight was on his heels, stride for stride. Coming into the homestretch, Challedon, who had been trailing the leaders, flew past them in a splatter of mud, crossed the finish line a length and a half-in front of Gilded Knight. Mighty Johnstown, with mud in his eye, strolled in next to last, almost ear to ear with last-place Ciencia, only filly in the race...