Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know President Hoover. His methods are unspectacular; his purposes are inflexible. As a result he is misunderstood. During the last winter the Senate has taken the applause and the President has had the boos. The mud slingers, sarcasm manufacturers and editorial croakers have had an inning. But the President has not permitted himself to be deflected...
...lions of Libya enjoyed Christians; the place where Cato committed suicide; a strange unknown city called the City of Fear, buried in the middle of the Sahara. The houses of this city, built in a country where in modern times rain never falls, were made entirely of sand and mud and stood eight stories high. There is a palace equipped with a complete heating plant; in the tomb of a dancing girl buried 2,000 years ago are a vanity case, a variety of rouges, mirrors, jewels, phials of perfume; 7,000 vases contain the skeletons of children sacrificed...
...second day the Heavens opened, shot a bolt of lightning which killed popular Bookie Walter Holbein as he was accepting bets, then poured such a Biblical deluge that water backed up six inches deep in parts of the Royal Enclosure, svelte ladies lost their shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen with utterly ruined grey toppers drove sadly up to London in waterlogged...
...over India driblets of rain began to fall. More than simply the beginning of the torrential monsoon season, the showers signalized the entry of St. Gandhi's campaign into its second. more serious phase, that of nonpayment of taxes. With the monsoons, salt marshes become morasses of mud and slime, inaccessible alike to the Briton and to the Gandhiman...
Majestic--"All Quiet on the Western Front". Mud, love, and the Russian peasant in wartime...