Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looking insufferably bored, Glenna Collett saw her ball dip over a swell of grass and disappear into the tenth hole of the course of the St. Louis Country Club. Her father was a famous amateur bicycle rider. Her bust measurement is 36 inches. She had on a lemon sweater, buff skirt, tan hat. The public displayed some interest in these facts because, by virtue of that putt, she won for the second time the U. S. women's golf championship...
Said Van A. Bittner: "Injunctions are like leaves of grass in the lives of labor leaders. . . . Injunctions won't break strikes...
...keep that intricate bit of landscape at its pinnacle of horticultural impeccability right up to the great moment, it only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...
...called Mr. Whitman "Poet-Atheist" in contradistinction to the "true-Atheist" compared with him in the article referred to. Of course, the charge of atheism cannot be seriously leveled against him today, but the charge of godlessness ("defiance of the Deity," etc.) was leveled with others against Leaves of Grass. He was dismissed from his government post because he had written the book...
...precedent," exclaimed officials, throwing up their hands in surprise. But there is something that approaches a precedent. Walt Whitman, now regarded by many as the chief fount of American poesy, was, shortly after the Civil War, ousted from the Treasury Department because atheistical tendencies were discerned in Leaves of Grass...