Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman football team and Worcester Academy fought to a score- less tie in a field of mud and slime on the Freshman gridiron of Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. The contest was fiercely fought and both elevens showed a stubborn defensive play...
...springs will be run through miles of glass-lined bronze pipe to a magnificent central drinking hall, located over one spring, The Chief (long since capped and abandoned), where drinkers can sit on leather lounges, listen to an orchestra, sip luxuriantly. Adjoining wings will contain hot and cold baths, mud baths, sun baths. There will be theatres, concert halls, gymnasiums, a hospital. The 1,100 acres of the park will be laid out in a series of walks medically graded from easy, level paths for patients with acute heart trouble to active, alpine scrambles for convalescents...
...There is no water fit to drink. The water works are demolished, the river is a sea of mud and the dead are still uncounted. Floods have washed out the newly buried dead in the cemeteries and coffins float around like corks. . . . Concrete cisterns are being used as funeral pyres, cremating as many as fifty bodies at a time. Even at a distance of ten miles . . . it was apparent that bodies were being burned. When we landed we could see wagons pass by loaded with dead. The drivers would stop and curse and cry: 'More dead, more dead...
...coasts. In Shelton, Wash., lumberport, a large black whale appeared one 2 a. m. Mill hands hooked a hawser around its jaw, towed it to deep water. Thereupon it rushed to another part of the bay, was eventually harpooned. In Dover, N. H., a whale became marooned on a mud-flat, was shot by local police. Editorially, the New York World denounced this act, pointed out that while a live whale is no asset to a community, a dead one is a distinct liability...
...plan as "fantastic," was called a "jellyfish" by his opponent. Congressman Hull won the senatorial nomination two-to-one, should have small difficulty defeating Paul E. Divine, Johnson City attorney, Republican nominee, in the November election. Governor Henry Hollis Horton, as "the man who pulled Tennessee out of the mud" was given Democratic renomination over L. E. Gwinn. Memphis attorney who complained that Negroes "in droves" had been voted in the party primary. C. Arthur Bruce was the Republican gubernatorial nominee. In the First Congressional District, Republican Congressman B. Carroll Reece, with the open support of President Hoover...