Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gloomy outlook from any point of view. The undergraduate looks out from his window at the sky and the roofs and the slush,--all a dirty slate gray,--blows his nose and mutters: "Dab it, Cab-bridge is one town that God forgot!" But it is less trouble to go on sneezing and gargling than to go to the doctor's office at the outset. There the service costs nothing and a little properly directed attention can put an end to an embryo cold which is a personal discomfort and may be a public nuisance. With the storm-signals...
...Nowadays we set up artificial evergreens in public parks, and whole communities gather round them to join in the old sings. But behind both waits and communities has always been the same genial, good-fellow feeling; the spirit that buffets shopping-crowds without losing its smile, braves snow and slush for errands of charity, and drains its purse in rival generosity. Whenever man want to express a mood he cannot put in common words, he turns to music and dresses it as a song. The carols are the expression of Christmas; no one can hear them without catching a tinge...
...This move apparently marks the solidification of opposition to Samuel Gompers, who for thirty-nine years has held the office now coveted by Mr. Lewis. Labor's "grand old man", however, has declined to give up without a struggle. His supporters have resurrected the well-worn charge of a "slush fund", and are plying their trade with all the gusto of professional politicians. There will be "great doin's" in Denver before long. Factional strife was never so ominous as at present. Labor has had pretty much its own way of late years; one begins to wonder whether the discordant...
After three months of unsavory blathering about thirty million dollar slush funds and senatorial oligarchies, the Democratic nominee, recalled by his master's voice to the real issue of the campaign has returned to the one subject of supreme importance which has been thrashed over a thousand times in the past year, and which must be decided in the near future. He has recognized the pre-eminence of the League of Nations problem. He has got down to the nuts and raisins...
...case against Caillaux is similar to that against Bolo Pasha who was executed as a spy in April 1918 and that against M. Duval editor of the Bonnet Rouge which was subsidised by a German slush fund, who also went to death at Vincennes for treachery the July following. M. Malvy, a close friend of the accused and Minister of the Interior while he was Premier, is now in exile in Spain as the result of his diplomatic machinations...