Word: slushed
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...grey morning on Chicago's southwest side. Sooty slush was ankle deep, the wind whined so bitterly through the littered alleys that the police outside grey brick St. Procopius' Church beat their arms against their sides. But from everywhere the people came...
From the Gold Coast came big names in wealth and society. They hurried into the church, holding their furs around their ears. Large-boned, narrow-eyed Slavs in Sunday-best waded through the slush from smoke-stained frame houses and brick tenements near the stockyards. Priests, bishops and archbishops occupied a solid 14 pews within St. Procopius'. The occasion: the four-hour investiture of Father Ambrose Ondrak as Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Procopius, one of 21 abbeys of the U.S. Benedictines. The investing prelate: Samuel Cardinal Stritch...
...live groups, some of the members of whom are refugees from the BVDeed Football Band have been serenading themselves and others for several weeks from a variety of locations. The two beat section, The Harvard Banana Orchestra (the band with appeal) featuring "Hot Lips" Loring, "Slush Pump" Pines, and "Spanker" Spencer holds forth on Wednesday evenings. The Gillespieites under "Rebop" Whitehouse give out on Thursdays. Holden Chapel, a building which has seen nearly everything during its two hundred and two years of existence is destined for at least one new sight when these two groups introduce it to le jazz...
After watching some 50 shivering steel pickets march through the slush, Frank L. Driver, president of Harrison, N.J.'s Driver-Harris Co., put benches in his personnel offices, ordered coffee, sandwiches, crullers and pies, sprinkled the slippery sidewalks with sand. Said one apologetic picket: "The strike was orders from higher up. The company knows it's not our fault...
...Ottawa, the broad lawn on Parliament Hill shook off its mantle of snow. All across the province deep drifts fell away to little dirty mounds; streets were choked with slush. The Sauble River, the Etobicoke, the Humber, the Sydenham and the Big Head boiled over their banks. As the bottom went out of roads in the Maritimes. logging virtually stopped...