Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next the Countess Szembeck, wife of the Polish Minister at Bucharest, was forced to ruin her lace evening gown by reclining in some particularly squelchy mud. "Outrageous!" she stormed, sobbed...
...Buchmanism, which encourages its adherents, of both sexes, to achieve spiritual relief by blurting out their sex histories at weekend "house parties" (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). This gave the society an unsavory reputation among many outsiders. To others it seemed ridiculous. Many an undergraduate and alumnus has spattered mud, flour, beer on the allegorically righteous bronze figure of the Christian Student, which stands across the road from Murray-Dodge Hall, small brownstone. neo-Gothic citadel of the society (TIME. Dec. 2). Two facetious undergraduates once conducted a campaign for the presidency and vice presidency of the organization which...
...Cormick contest was one remote from the man-in-the-street, in this case U. S. entry into the World Court. Mrs. McCormick, like her isolationist husband before her, is against it. Senator Deneen is for it. As in most Illinois campaigns, there was mudslinging. Mrs. McCormick found her mud in Senator Deneen's friendship for Joseph ("Diamond") Esposito, Chicago underworldling...
...forget anything?" "Yes, mud, I am a hunk of mud and six pails of water...
Through all the rain and raw mist that swallowed Cambridge in one gulp last night an old comrade came slipping along in the mud all the way to Lowell House where the Vagabond lives in the construction shack. This true friend of Vagabondia brought good tidings of the morning's adventure...