Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith hurried to East London, but before he arrived, the fish had disintegrated. Its soft parts had turned to mush, leaving only its bones and armorlike scales. Then & there Dr. Smith swore an ichthyological oath: he would find another coelacanth. Somewhere in East African waters there must be more of them...
...weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel. A coelacanth had been caught, said Hunt, in the Mozambique Channel near Madagascar. Dr. Smith had better come quick, before it turned to mush like the other...
Davison cabled the club's resignation from the Intercollegiate Glee Club on the grounds that the selections were "silly sentimental mush" and not in accord with the dignity of any college contest. Chief offender was the prize song, Horatio Parker's "The Lamp in the West...
...Eliminate the sentimental mush or we withdraw!" Davison's ultimatum read. "The programms stands as originally submitted," ran the reply...
Finally Davison quelled some alumni protest by stating that the term sentimental mush "was merely a press fabrication...