Word: slough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reed (Portland, Ore.) the rope snapped between Nos. 4 and 5 on the freshman tug-of-war team. Nos. 1 to 4 gamely held tight while howling sophomores dragged them through a muddy, 75-ft. slough neck-deep with icy water. As they emerged a newshawk approached spluttering Freshman No. 1, asked why he was there...
...spring months of 1933 a weary and buffeted nation, greatly heartened by the entry into the White House of a man who could act, a man who knew how to smile, turned, and with new hope began to search for a way out of its slough of despond. Now that months have passed and the goal does not yet seem to be near, the advocates of laissez-faire and of ancient conservatism again raise their hoary heads and begin anew their piping complaints. Of late, however, amid the anvil chorus of cheerfully pessimistic second-guessers, an able voice has been...
...many a subject to keep the pot boiling, wrote on everything from the interpretation of dreams to the future of swearing. Other occupations included keeping a shop on Boar's Hill, outside Oxford, school-teaching in Egypt. His friend Shaw once helped him out of a financial slough by presenting him with one of the rare copies of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom, telling him to sell it when read. Five years ago Author Graves left England, now lives in Deya, Mallorca with Laura Riding. Tall, lean, black-a-vised, muscular, Robert Graves looks younger than his 38 years...
...free competition. While this sentiment expresses in general a growing conviction that the administration cannot much longer occupy a middle position on all-important questions of governmental control, still Mr. Ely must be an optimist indeed to believe that "free" competition will not again land us in the same slough as the one from which we are just beginning to emerge. MIDAS...
...more; he might go beyond negation, beyond futilitarianism, beyond disgust with life as it is, to discover, and use as a horizon, life as it might be. "Come in at the Door" is a novel well worth reading--even reading twice. If March can lift himself from the slough of despond and find direction, his next novel will be a more meaning contribution