Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waiters' eight. In fact the managers two lone runs came in the third inning with the bases full of sore-limbed scoffers when Duggan, after chasing a long fly after catching it as he ripped on the quoits peg, and after rolling over and over on the grass, rose smiling and dizzy to throw to second base, in order to put out Halated, who had apparently fallen asleep between second and third. After all this, in his dizziness he threw into the river instead of to the waiting, second sack...
Several months ago, a party set out for the interior of the Darien peninsula, once more bent on the ancient quest. For days and weeks they remained buried in a wilderness of swamp and jungle grass, with nothing to connect them to civilization but a small wireless outfit and the monotonously regular stretcher parties that bore their muttering burdens back to the hospital at Colon. Yesterday, however, came a radiogram. The leader of the expedition reported that of the eleven original members, three were still left in the party; they intended to continue their march in the morning...
Said Mr. Spence: "She has a wonderful backhand stroke and hits with amazing power. If she can get used to the grass courts, she will be most formidable...
...warning to the grass...
...instrumental in building up this new and important corps of the Army, showing great ability as an organizer and leader. In France he was known to his, men as " Silk Hat Harry"?a name gleaned from his own phraseology in describing the effect of walking across grass as similar to that acquired in brushing a silk hat. During the German drive on Paris in the early part of June, 1918, when the Second Division was thrown in the breach, every available officer was placed on duty. St. Gaudens found himself Secretary to the Chief of Staff of this Division...