Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first half of the novel, Mother Danforth's mind wanders wayward through the past, remembering all that a reader must know to understand what is to come, but also remembering such things as a day when she was a little girl, lying in the grass: "The heat waved over tier hands and face and the air rippled all around her in little rings and circulations of summer tunes. She put out a finger to deflect an emerald beetle climbing a blade of grass and watched it spread its pretty double wings and fly away; there was a long procession...
...soberest guest in the place, and his pretty, dark-eyed sister, a refugee from the German Eastern territories. As the host eyed the dignitaries with evident satisfaction, a friend explained to me succinctly: "He has the food, they have the titles." Around a statue of the Archangel Michael, grass skirts and American zoot-suits, favored by Munich's youthful social elite, whirled till dawn. Morning found most of Munich broke and badly hung over...
...February, forsythia bloomed on Long Island, Maryland's spring peepers started to peep, and shirtsleeved New Yorkers lay on green grass in Central Park. In violent contrast, Southern Californians shoveled snow this winter for the first time in their lives, and the stiff bodies of frozen cattle broke the blades of rotary snowplows in blizzard-bound Montana...
...part of the grass-roots campaign to bring Main Street to Wall Street, the Stock Exchange itself was launching a $500,000 advertising campaign. Its theme was that those with small incomes should buy stocks in the same regular way they buy insurance. Said New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram: "An investor can buy any number of shares on the Stock Exchange-i, 10, 14, 20, or more-and such orders are welcomed by our member firms and given just as much attention as 100 shares...
...stubby (5 ft. 8 in., 175 Ibs.) Louis Armstrong speaks of his role on Shrove Tuesday (March 1), his expressive eyes shine with excitement and amusement. Dressed in long, black-dyed underwear and grass skirt and wearing a green velvet cape and gilt cardboard crown, the King sets out on a riotous 20-mile, all-day parade. He winds through the streets of the Negro district, stopping at the shops of parade sponsors, holds court, sees that his loyal Zulu subjects are refreshed with beer and potato salad...