Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first candidate to enter this year's Republican field was William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of Buffalo. As Wartime commander of the 165th Infantry ("Fighting 69th"), he made a great reputation for personal heroism, returned from France with his mud-splashed tunic heavy with medals. As U. S. District Attorney at Buffalo, he was drastic enough to lose some friends locally but to be called to Washington to assist the Attorney General. For three years with Mabel Walker Willebrandt, he practically ran the Department of Justice over the hulking shoulder of easy-going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed...
...cloudless sky. Across the dusty desert road and up the steep ascent to the topmost mesa went scores of automobiles packed with curious white men & women. Their interest in the famed Hopi Snake Dance was whetted by the sound of muffled drum beats as they neared the grey mud-&-stone village of Hotevilla. But the Hopi, who had heard those drum beats all night, paid little heed to visitors. Their minds behind weirdly painted faces were intent on a thing savage, religious and remote. Their eyes were upon the parched earth to which they must bring rain. Ceremony- Throughout...
...Ashtabula, Ohio, a telephone company truck splattered mud on Leo Potti. Enraged Leo Potti went about cutting, chopping, sawing, shooting at the company's transcontinental telephone wires whenever he could. He was captured when he fell from a pole...
...many cigarettes. This again is not heroic. People are sick and people are poor and other people take care of them. This, too, is stinking and sweaty. And yet in the town shopmen call him "Doc" and slip an extra carton of cigarettes in his box of provisions. In mud time when the Ford slips into a pot hole, a team is hitched on to the front "ax" and the farmer forgets to ask for his three dollars. It really is not very understandable...
...times a year. After a young lobster has cast its shell it turns around and eats it. After some 23 molts the shell is tough, the lobster considers himself a man and goes off in search of a batch of eggs to fertilize. In the winter lobsters live in mud at the bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore. In April and May they move shoreward to feed. In its old age a lobster may reach the length of 23-75 in, as did one caught off the New Jersey coast in 1897, weight...