Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the sale ended Louis B. Mayer's big day as a racehorse owner, he was not through with horses. On a 504-acre ranch at the edge of the Mojave Desert, he still has a splendiferous breeding farm, with 15 different kinds of grass, a resident veterinarian, and everything but gold-handled pitchforks. There he keeps 74 of the finest brood mares in the land, whose offspring he will raise and sell each season as yearlings. Breeding, says L.B. now, is the side of the horse industry that is really sporting...
Daveron, who knew the jungles, stepped in. First, he set up a mule hospital, treated maggot-infested wounds (from sharp jungle grass) with crude-oil rubs. With local gauchos he rounded up the strays and drove the troop to better pasture...
...knows "it would be easy to go to Hollywood and make a lot of money and buy an automobile and a suburban home. But for what? Anybody can be comfortable." (Not so averse to Broadway money, he danced in As Thousands Cheer and Keep off the Grass.) Says he: "I don't know what other way I'd want to spend my life. If I couldn't dance, I wouldn't want to live...
...Look at the dirt in that gutter. And the spots in that park ... no grass at all. And the bumps in this street. This town is falling apart, piece by piece...
...clouds piled in grey threat on threat and a blue darkness settled on the land. In the San Juan valley the darker greens seemed black and the lighter green of grass, a chilling wet blue. 'Sweetheart' came rolling heavily along the highway and the aluminum paint on her gleamed with the evil...