Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...court could punish them for what it might call contempt of court, and this place is one of them. . . . "Mr. President, there are millions of his [Mr. Fall's] countrymen who would not object to seeing him adorned with a yellow necktie in the form of a grass rope. If an American soldier in charge of the oil reserves of the nation had done what he has done he would have been court-martialed and shot. "... I am going to close now with this appropriate quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: Through tatter'd clothes small vices...
...home of Lady Ward, onetime Miss Jean Whitelaw Reid of Manhattan), my chauffeur ran into a dense fog bank on the Great West Road. He tried to make a detour, but floundered hopelessly in the murk and I had to exercise patience while he groped along the grass edge of the road...
...reproductive organs. The presence of eels in waters blocked from the sea by high falls, and in land-locked ponds and lakes, is readily accounted for by the eel's ability to live a long time out of water, to travel considerable distances overland at night, through wet grass or during damp weather. The ancient Greeks, perplexed by eels' habits, considered them Jupiter's spawn...
...boom-de-ay'?" Of course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan Avenue [the book is dedicated to Chicagoans who turned the century] was a dirt road leading south from the greasy river, past brownstone respectability to prairie pioneering in those windblown, grass-grown suburbs, Oakland, Hyde Park, the Midway? And how Chicago sprang up and spread out, so that when the World's Fair opened, with the world's biggest this and the world's finest that, it was a city, with plenty of black smoke and red light neighborhoods...
...eagles, white-headed vultures, paradise finches, rare parrots; an elephant shrew; the largest leopard in captivity; civet cats, water mongooses, baboons, purple-faced monkeys, hyenas. Among the antelopes quarantined at Boston were five impalla, most graceful of their family; a baby eland, blind in one eye from the blazing grass in which he was captured; several dik-diks, no bigger than jackrabbits...