Word: bluegrass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exception) and Crestonians are proud of its up-and-comingness. Crestonman Elmo Roper of FORTUNE Survey needs take no poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very desk...
...which he had three mortgages) and a truckload of chickens. Chased by deputy sheriffs to Nashville, the sculptor abandoned his car, ran across country, got away, leaving a lawsuit between the three finance companies and his statues of horses and dogs, to mark his strange passage through the bluegrass country...
Left behind on a bluegrass slope were 3,000 to 5,000 spectators who hoped to catch a glimpse of the chase in the ravine beneath...
With the prospect of four more equally strenuous days ahead, fits of weeping broke out. Someone stepped on "Miss Cincinnati's" toe, causing an infection that sent her to a hospital. Girls who arrived thin were growing thinner. "Miss Bluegrass" was down to a measly 95 lb. When Director George D. Tyson heard that some of the girls were in a rebellious mood, he firmly announced: "Any girls not following the approved schedule will be disqualified...
...prize scholars, one from Iowa and the other from the bluegrass of Kentucky, will arrive in Cambridge next September with the Class of 1939, it was announced yesterday...