Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dame Europa floundering in a swamp...
Punch, London's politico-humorous weekly, prodded President Coolidge for offering Europe aid after the reparations tangle had been unraveled. In a political cartoon, Mr. Coolidge is seen standing on the bank while he watches Dame Europa floundering in the reparations swamp. Says "Cal": "As soon as you have extricated yourself from the morass in which you are now wallowing I will be happy, Madame, to summon assistance...
Under the circumstances, Harvard became liberal. The Gold Coast was reclaimed from river swamp and turned over to the newspapers, the Pudding branched out into mock trials, rowdy burlesques of classics now no better remembered than-their parodies, ultimately into musical skits (see Owen Wister) and so by the laws of gravity...
...Excavation for a new hotel in Washington, D. C., unearthed a subterranean cypress swamp containing fossil diatoms, minute plants which lived in the Pleistocene age. " Oldest inhabitants" are arguing with the scientists that the swamp existed in their boyhood, but the evidence favors its antiquity...
Excellent team-work combined with accurate passing and fast skating enabled the University hockey team to swamp the St. Nicholas Hockey Club of New York 5 to 1 on Saturday evening at the Arena. Although displaying individual brilliance, the visitors showed their lack of practice in their passing game. Jabish Holmes '21 at goal exhibited the most finished work shown by an opposing goal-guard this season, but his efforts were insufficient to stop the shots which were rained at him continually from all angles. It is a significant fact that all the Crimson points were made on short shots...