Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ralston. A Democrat whose boom has not yet begun is the new "high-grass " Senator from Indiana. As The New York Evening Post sapiently remarks: "A Democrat who can recapture Indiana two years after the greatest Republican landslide in the annals of American politics is under no necessity of putting up a Presidential lightning...
...about the same stage of development as our sun, the latter too might at any time flare up as the stars have done; and if it did, the intense heat would consume everything on earth as fiercely as an acetyline torch licks up a few blades of grass. This unpleasant assumption is based on mere conjecture. It is a known fact, however, that these variable stars eventually drop back to their original magnitude or brilliancy...
There is more starvation in the world today than there was in the old world before the war. Pick up your papers almost any day, and read of the countless thousands subsisting on grass and roots in Russia, and of the famished thousands on the bleak islands of Greece and on the coast of the Aegean. Never were there so many homeless people as wander today seeking a place where they may lay their heads. Can we say that, in this so called "new world", womanhood and childhood is more respected and more loved? I fear not. The public reads...
...astronomer's turn to be whipped. And some people even hope that jazz and the hip-hoorah of modern Pep will drown the roar of the sidereal universe. None of these, of course, considers that one shift of the celestial pole in a mere 25,000 years will make grass grow on the present north pole and put jelly fish in even the most modern of our office buildings...
...when he retired at one time with but one pupil to a "desert place," students finding his retreat followed him. "Cities and castles were deserted for this Thebaid of science. Tents were set up; mud walls, covered with moss, rose to shelter the numerous disciples who slept on the grass and nourished themselves with rustic dishes and coarse bread...