Word: clover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorus. This chorus is Good. They can ogle an eye, trip a measure, swing a neat ankle and sing. The girls are sylph-like in their gracefulness, like a swarm of butterflies winging o'er a clover field. The boys are stalwart and sturdy, dressed in their 50-pound suits of armor. If they don't always look happy, think how you'd feel black-bottoming in full matching equipment and looking for all the world like a King Arthur Flour...
...folk-consciousness not only by its bumbling name but by appropriate industry. That its industry might reap greater rewards, it last week (in the person of Publisher Nelson B. Updike) bought out and absorbed its chief competitor, the Omaha Daily News, 28-year-old member of the Clover Leaf Syndicate...
Last week, two giraffes gazed mournfully down upon Boston. It was not enough that an ocean and most of a continent lay between them and their clover-clad African home; not enough that they had been rolled and tossed in a creaking steel ark over thousands of watery miles. But now they were suspicious characters. They had been sequestered until Government veterinarians could be sure they did not harbor anthrax bacteria. Nearby were 15 African antelopes and four African wart hogs, similarly sequestered, suspect...
...farmers at their chores. The family party-Mrs. Lowden was with her husband-went first to the Drake-owned Blackstone Hotel, then to "Sinnissippi," the 4,500-acre Lowden agricultural estate down at Oregon, 111. There, three days later, 500 Illinois bankers followed them, to stand knee deep in clover that was soaked by a heavy drizzle, to hear...
...beauty spot of New Jersey, clad in fat trees and voluptuous clover on a still, close night last week . . . now lies prostrated, ravished, wrecked, shivered, torn, blasted. As if razed by ten years' surging warfare, the fields and villages nearby Lake Denmark, shrouded in grey gunpowder dust, welter in the July heat, pocked and gashed by a terrific bombardment...