Word: slush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Ridgeway Grundy who goes into a primary election next month against Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis for the Republican senatorial nomination, grew so excited detailing to the Privileges & Elections Committee alleged "slush funds'' being raised against him by the Vare-Atterbury faction, that Chairman Shortridge had to call him sharply to order. Secretary Davis, when he heard a Senate committee would investigate Mr. Grundy's campaign expenditures along with his own, rapturously exclaimed...
...commercial films of any kind are shown, no drama, slush or comedy. Instead the peasant whose plow is wood gapes at steel tractors and harvesting machines, sees for the first time whirring factory wheels and great steamers breasting seas beyond his ken. Peasant women are shown "model homes," see babies washed as babies should be washed, even in one film reserved for married women, watch babies come as babies should come...
Geography in the Vagabond's parlance suggests--well, it suggests a vagabondage to more happy hunting grounds than a Cambridge in the labors of a pre-mature spring slush. That's probably half the trouble with a vagabond's life; a little taste here and a sip there soon makes the world go round in such an interesting fashion that it is a triffe difficult to stay safely put in any particular spot...