Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georgia's fatted calf is dead. They killed it for Bobby Jones. By virtue of one startling shot from the deep grass on the 18th hole at Inwood, Jones won, in addition to the open golf championship, one of the greatest " feasts of honor" ever heaped on a Georgia table and a resolution of appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only...
...University tennis team for the intercollegiate tournament has not been definitely decided, it is expected that Briggs will replace Guild as the fourth man. In the test matches which have been held since the encounter with Yale Briggs has shown increasing power and yesterday afternoon on the grass courts at Longwood triumphed over Guild in two sets out of three. The tournament will be held at the Merion Cricket Club in Philadelphia and will begin on June...
...TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE.-This classic of blue grass feuds has made the jump to the screen with the blue of its grass and the scarlet of its feuds unimpaired. There are thrilling moments while the feudists grip their revolvers in one hand, their moonshine jugs in the other, their rifles between their teeth...
...Which legs does a fly use to clean its middle pair?" "How many ounces of grass does a grasshopper eat in a day?" Miss Claribel R. Barnett, librarian of the Department of Agriculture, answers these questions and many like them, put by perplexed letter writers...
...character, Robert Frost is best known for his second volume of verse, North of Boston. Frost is a farmer by nature, that curious combination of dreamer and hardheaded Yankee, more characteristic of tillers of the soil than of poets. I like best to think of him sitting in the grass at the edge of a field back of his farmhouse in the Vermont hills. His large, nobly-formed head, with its loosely falling iron gray hair, bends slightly forward. He talks deliberately, softly, his somewhat piercing and remarkably blue eyes lighting now and then with mischievous humor. Frost was born...