Word: grass
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...discussions about what drove these people on into the West. The vision of free lands, cattle, and finally wheat drew them like a magnet, and drew their sons across the Mississippi and onto the plains. And the people sitting in the wagons which creaked through forests of prairie grass were interesting people, who had real thoughts and misgivings in their minds. It took a man who understood and loved his fellows to recreate these simple people of the past, the Vag said to himself...
...years go past upon his voice, carrying with them the rustle of the buffalo grass, the song of the loggers and the boatmen, and the Civil War's distant thunder; the Vag sees the gleam of the frontiersman's rifle and bridle fall to the ground and become the glint of the first railroad track across America. On either side of the rails the corn and wheat springs up with the houses, and the Indian mounts his pony and rides away forever...
...infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine. Each year on the eastern seaboard the beetles now devour millions of dollars' worth of foliage, fruits, flowers, vegetables. They spend over three-fourths of their year of life as grubs, damaging lawns, links and pastures by eating grass roots...
...columns, were trivial. For three days the German people were ignorant. Then they learned that it had been Blitz. The troops were in Salonika. In the newsreels the people saw not only practice maneuvers in Bulgaria, but Stukas screaming down on the Greeks, dusty Nazi soldiers napping in the grass beside Yugoslav roads...
...window that tied up traffic last week was at Franklin Simon's. Designers Claire Lang, James Gosling and George Perkins reproduced the whole door of a church and an adjoining stained-glass window (made out of Cellophane and shoe dye), a lawn with real grass. Through the church door paraded a dozen live models, women in spring street clothes, men in frock coats, military uniforms and mufti. Once a day six choristers from the Paulist choir stepped into the window and caroled Gregorian chants, their shrill-sweet descant relayed by amplifier to the street outside. The Franklin Simon window...