Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outbreak of a Russo-Japanese war, U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies was last week a busy conciliator in Moscow, conferring with pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu and portly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff between the bouts of these two diplomats over a pair of uninhabited islands covered with swamp grass which seemed capable of setting Eastern Asia more or less aflame...
Happy were the editors of the CRIMSON when, in 1876, a grinning new born babe appeared in the middle of Mt. Auburn street. Ere long they began taking if down on the swamp across the river, where they rolled it in the mud and pulled its hair and fed it grape juice and then called the score 23-2 in their favor...
...grinning baby grew up and became known as the Lampoon. But each Spring the CRIMSON still takes it across the river. Although the ground has grown too and thee is no more swamp, it always manages to rain for the game. So the grinning Lampon editors still get rolled in the mud. After awhile it began to hurt when their hair was pulled,, so now they all have crew cuts. But the score is still...
...visitors have amassed 12 victories and suffered only two losses, while the Yardlings have marked up eight triumphs to nine defeats. Unless the Crimson plays much better ball than at Andover, Wednesday, the Blue of Yale will swamp the Freshmen tomorrow...
...visit to my ancestral Mt. Hope here at Ridgeway my great aunts, aged 90 and 80 years, tell me of his soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...