Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would seem important to clear up the rather glaring m's-statement "Sick and no longer able to turn out hit tunes, he hanged himself five years ago." At the time when he was no longer supposed to be able to turn out hit tunes, his song Whispering Grass was having great success in this country, later becoming a World War II hit in Great Britain and the Continent. And at the same time of his illness, he had the top hit song in England, She Wore a Little Jacket of Blue, for which he received the ASCAP award...
...dream of rain making is as old as man. For centuries, Chinese suppliants, barechested, short-trousered, and wearing bands of green grass about their heads, have paraded with their dragons and beaten gongs to bring rain. In the U.S., Indians still propitiate the Thunderbird with symbolic dances...
...Davis Cup days were already $145,000 plus. The ten days of National Singles play would probably bring in nearly $150,000 more. The concessionaires were getting ready to serve up a record-breaking 30,000 hot dogs and 48,000 bottles of soda pop. Each morning, the 23 grass courts were being rolled a little nearer perfection...
...tennis court Jake becomes all business. He never mutters after a bad shot, never throws his racket on the grass in disgust. "Don't talk to yourself," Jake advises. "If you do, you are fighting a losing battle...
...Salvatore Rosa. After classes, he would stroll out from the Eternal City for long looks at the ruins which ringed it like a crum bling shell. Tumbling, ivied walls in scribed with ancient names and victories, pillars overlooking the wilderness or sprawled broken like dead giants in the grass, and marble steps descending into the sod inspired the "Views" for which Pannini became famous. Perhaps his the spaciousness and sparkle of Canaletto and Guardi, whose pictorial celebrations of declining Venice were equally in demand. But for nostalgic elegance Pannini's Roman Views rivaled anything Venice could produce. Without Pannini...