Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fear is in every lump of Hearstian mud...
...moved on to make the first big strike (Crawford Field) in Illinois. He lost most of his cash in Oklahoma mud, recouped it by discovering the huge Caddo pool in Louisiana...
...found a way to do the same for plow blades. A geologist worked out a method of handling ammonium nitrate crystals which helped the Spencer Chemical Co. of Pittsburg, Kans. switch from wartime explosives to peacetime fertilizers. Midwest developed a bacteriological germicide, a new kind of steak sauce, a mud hardener for barnyards, and a revolutionary way to mill wheat by exploding grains with compressed...
...American Home. In Waukesha, Wis., a judge awarded Mrs. Dolores Garvey a divorce after she testified that her husband let his dog track mud through her kitchen. In Cincinnati, Elmo Skinner's petition for a divorce complained that his wife was in Loglick, Ky., where "she has acquired a hog and 40 chickens. The world food situation being what it is, she prefers to remain ... in preference to returning to ... the potluck which city life offers." In Los Angeles, John Wilson, who said his wife walked out on him two hours after the wedding, finally got around to suing...
...Elzey Roberts decided that they were-though some other parties were also guilty. In an editorial he said: "It is time that society as a whole faced the fact that through its negligence and apathy this postwar period has become a hog-wallow of eroticism." He felt that the mud in this wallow was contributed by some movies, fashion designers, plays, radio programs, books, perfume ads and "unwholesome comic strips with provocative poses." He left it to his readers to tell him what should be done...