Word: esparto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase: "I am studying America." But, in alternately low-voiced and explosive sentences, he was ready to speak of his fondness for golf; his many publications (including Tatler, Sketch, and Daily Chronicle); his 25 paper mills in England, Scotland, Germany; and his 1,500,000 acres of esparto grass in northern Africa...
...Esparto is a wild grass, growing tall as the bulrush. It flourishes in the sandy parts of northern Africa. It is picked for Papermaker-Publisher Harrison by a small army of Arabs. It is expensive, for the boiling down of the pulp diminishes its bulk by 50%. With the vigor of a true Yorkshireman, Mr. Harrison last week took pains to denounce as an ass an imaginative U. S. reporter who wrote how esparto grass had to be plucked by sweating Negroes, one blade at a time...