Word: slough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Progressive Republican" on the commission the new tariff law has recognized this bloc as a distinct faction. In view of the Democratic schism which loomed so large in 1924, and is still quite possible, this rupture within the Republican ranks makes for an added . Should Eastern Democracy slough off the reactionary South it would then occupy a position very similar to Western progressivism...
...expect sickly sentimentality decked in shimmering summer dresses, roses, and orange blossoms--an unseasonable dish, certainly, for a long winter evening. And true enough, the sentimentality, the summer dresses, the roses, and the orange blossoms are all present. Even so "Sweetheart Time" makes easy escape from the anticipated slough of hum-drum mediocrity...
...slough of hypocrisy." Despatche: reported that U. S. consulate; throughout the Reich were deluge with congratulatory or vitupera tive telephone calls...
Catherine Breshkovsky, octogenarian "grandmother of the Russian (Kerensky) Revolution of 1917," spoke to the world from her place of exile, the ancient and venerable city of Prague, CzechoSlovakian capital. She declared that Tsarism "was a little misfortune" to Russia compared with the slough of despondency into which Bolshevism has thrown that unfortunate country...
...believe they can still acquire it. But not by drawing up codes of ethics that most of their fellows laugh at, as a Congressman laughs at a gentleman. . . . There are dozens of papers in the U. S. that already show a determined effort to get out of the old slough. Any managing editor in the land, if he has the will, can carry his paper with them. ... Is the paper trifling, ill-informed, petty and unfair? Is its news full of transparent absurdities? Are its editorials ignorant and without sense? Is it written in blowsy slipshod English, full of cliches...