Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king, was feeling low, he crawled on his hands & knees and ate grass. But Nebuchadnezzar also drove the Egyptians out of Asia, conquered Syria, destroyed Jerusalem. Last week Chemists George O. Kohler, W. R. Graham and C. F. Schnabel of Kansas City, Mo. put two & two together. In grass, they said, there is power...
...Bolger, the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" and a famed tap dancer, Virginia O'Brien, co-starring with Bolger in "Keep of the Grass," opening in Boston April 29 may possibly appear with other members of the cast, while Ray Guild, winner of first prize in the Freshman Amateur Hour Wednesday night, and the Wessel brothers, who appeared on Major Bowes program and are now in Steubens in Boston, have a series of impersonations to amuse the crowd...
...Some older natives feel that the present population per square mile in Montana is just about right for free elbow room, that Nature intended it for range country, and rejoiced when in 1937, against all predictions, the range grass again took over the abandoned dry-land farms. The younger generation, scornful of distance, thinks nothing of hightailing it over mountain roads that give tourists the jitters, to a Saturday night dance, 60 or more miles away...
...sector: the northwest shore of Viipuri Bay and along the Gulf of Finland, on a front of 60 miles -halfway to Helsinki. Across the ice of the bay a great Russian sickle swept again & again. It hit some stumps and some stones, but it cut down a lot of grass...
...investigators called "generalized American speech." The listeners liked best a speaker (not Pennsylvania Dutch) from Lancaster, Pa., voted second place to one from Syracuse, N. Y.-both good examples of neutral, generalized diction. A speaker from Boston won third choice. But though he gave himself away by saying "grahss" (grass), "ahsk" (ask) and "look heah," few listeners placed him correctly...