Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing on the grass courts at Longwood Cricket Club Saturday afternoon, two members of the University tennis team were instrumental in gaining victory for Boston in the Church Cup competition with New York and Philadelphia. Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, Crimson No. 1 man, and M. T. Hill '30, No: 2, both scored triumphs over Quaker singles stars in three set matches to add the necessary points for a Boston win. The results gave the local squad the decision five matches to four...
...near future the John Barnard Associates will publish their first regular publication entitled "A Leaf of Grass from Shady Hill.. with a review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, written by Charles Eliot Norton in 1855." The book is in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Eliot Norton '46. The book is now being printed at the Harvard University Press...
...maiming 200 more unsuspecting men, women & children. Such fiends would delight to steal upon a wedding party and strike down the bride, the bridegroom and the guests. As their sadistic fury grew they would slay horses, cattle, dogs, cats, and perhaps run mad, slashing trees, stabbing bushes, murdering grass...
Slowly the invisible cloud took on impalpable bulk and was wafted by a light breeze across the River Elbe toward Wilhelmsburg. Adults and children dropped without knowing why. Cattle fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however...
...great horses and blowing on golden horns, were riding, running, through a wilderness of flowers. Their meek quarry fled through the brilliant fields; behind him, silent and happy, the pursuit increased and came more quickly; a wind stiffened in their flags and made the starry flowers bend across the grass. The white hounds leaned upon their leashes and the bowmen bent their bows. Crouching in a garden at last, the prisoned unicorn gazed upon his followers. They levelled spears amid a thousand flowers...