Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York State, it is no great crime to spit in a subway car or on the street. It is no great crime to wake sleeping citizens with ribald songs, to walk on the grass. According to the State statutes these are only misdemeanors, minor offences which are not felonies. For a misdemeanor, a man may spend at most a year in jail, pay a $500 fine...
Maurice E. Connolly, for 17 years Borough President of Queens, N. Y., has not been spitting, grass-walking, disturbing. But last week, in the Queens County Court House, he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the City in $29,500,000 contracts for sewer construction. Famed Lawyer Emory Roy Buckner, conducting the State's prosecution, showed circumstantial evidence that Mr. Connolly had aided the late John M. ("Gentleman Jack") Phillips to achieve a sewer pipe monopoly in Queens Borough. In 1917 specifications were doctored to require the kind of pipe that only Mr. Phillips could sell. From...
...week, the stronghold of that quaint, Afrlc potentate, H. H. Daudi Chau, the Kabaka of Buganda, East Africa. Though subservient to Great Britain, the Kabaka exercises many a right and power over his own people. Aloof, he resides within a spacious palace, surrounded by a woven fence of elephant grass, two miles in circumference and 15 feet high...
...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
Therefore last week Helga and Gertrud, the two little granddaughters of Old Paul von Hindenburg, dutifully kept their starched dresses clean of grass stains and their opinions to themselves. They were not the only ones balked of celebrating the 81st Birthday of the President of the German Republic. Scores, nay, hundreds of civic organizations had applied for permits to parade and joyfully demonstrate, in Berlin, before the Presidential Mansion...