Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mud...
...mess hall, two kitchens, laundry, paint shop, chair and shoe factories. The confusion increased. Eyes stinging with the yellow smoke, more than a thousand prisoners broke all the windows of the buildings which would not burn, destroyed their food supply, screamed, leaped, slipped, tumbled about in the thick mud left by melted snow. Finally Warden Hill walked out among them and ordered: "Go back to your cells or we'll fire." A Negro advanced threateningly, was shot down. The rest dispersed, having done $500,000 worth of damage in two hours. As a warning, highway police, militiamen, Chicago...
...Mud halted for some time last week "the British Speed King," Capt. Sir (knighted by George V last week) Malcolm Campbell. Impatiently Sir Malcolm paced the deck of "Britain's fastest ship," the Mauretania, until tugs tugged her off British mud flats, permitted her to reach Southampton...
...buildings and Widener. By this diversion of student traffic a minor annoyance has become a public nuisance. I refer to the condition of the sidewalks on the west side of Quincy Street. During the last few days of thaw the curbings have enclosed a river of viscous, soupy, yellow mud quite impossible to walk in without acquiring an ample coating on one's shoes and trousers...
...accepted by Benito Mussolini and apparently the tumult aroused by the affair has died down in Italian circles. It would therefore seem that a prolongation of the incident would not only be an unnecessary expenditure of effort, but also contribute nothing to the improvement of international relations. Furthermore, the mud-slinging and fireworks usually attending American trials might serve to make the Butler statement even more aggravating abroad. Already Senator Heflin has shouted in the Senate that the Italian dictator is a "red-handed murderer" guilty of a "dastardly deed...