Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mauna Loa's first eruption in five years. Comparatively little destruction attended it. Few, if any, lives were lost. The lava flowed chiefly south and west from three orifices, demolishing but one village, Hoopuloa (chief remaining centre of grass-skirt dancing), which it buried 50 feet deep. An eastward flow demolished four ranch houses...
Various are the workings of the reforming mind. From that distant time, so ancient as to fail admission to the field of divisionals, when a reforming officer from Olympus kept the only two humans in existence from the grass of Eden, reformers have flourished the weapons of restraint. And now in the sacred precincts of academic freedom these praying, preying protestants of all the joi de vivre and verve of life have found in modern science a means of making more moral the minions of culture...
...with Brownie No. A's under Easter sleeves. And I saw an old man, Emeritus Professor of Photography perhaps, lugging along a huge thing that I took to be a moving picture machine. It was all beyond me. I gave up in despair and counted blades of green grass like a erase sentimentalist...
...artist-father's house on grass-grown Market Street (Newark) was "the resort of notabilities." Thither came Henry Ward Beecher, General McClellan, Horace Greeley, Edwin Booth, Frank Leslie. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun had used to come. Buffalo Bill called next door. Thomas Edison had a shop around the corner...
...spring fever be blamed upon the approach of April, so may the hour examinations. These more or less Jucid intervals of spasmodic scribbling follow closely upon the first bluebird and drift along until the new blades of grass anounce the deadline. At the present moment, any student carrying the normal, any student carrying the normal burden of courses probably has an hour examination or so both before and behind him, and several right under his feet...