Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, 82 in Philadelphia, 81 in Boston, 77 in Chicago, 85 in Memphis. Midwestern farmers mopped their foreheads and cursed the humidity which was delaying the corn harvest. Mississippians sighed and put off their hog killing. Thousands of city folk got out their lawn mowers-the grass was growing again...
...picture--that is, if Hollywood hadn't added the proverbial measure of corn. The result is a maudlin bit of bathos that pulls every trick in the book to get its sentimental effects and the tearful silver of every dowager in the nation from Long Branch, N. J., to Grass Valley, Cal. Mitchum, who turned in a fine performance as the infantry captain in "The Story of G.I. Joe," handles his role capably, as does William Gargan, who is cast as a Marine Rehabilitation NCO. The picture also deals surprisingly well with the problem of the nationalist, race-riot inciting...
There was indeed humble English earthiness in the 19th Century's John Constable, who spent most of his life in the country, kept his eyes fixed on the beautiful. Wrote Critic Ruskin scornfully: "Constable perceives . . . that grass is wet, the meadows flat, and the boughs shady; about as much as . . . might in general be apprehended, between them, by an intelligent faun and a skylark." But Constable had enough faunlike intelligence and skylark blitheness to make him Britain's classic landscape painter...
Thiman was graduated by the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England, in 1928. In 1930 he studied at the University of Grass, Austria, leaving after a year to join the faculty of the California Institute of Technology as an instructor in biochemistry and later in bacteriology...
...those Martians who know nothing about the Blues, work songs, or folk songs, Josh White can be described simply as a man who can, and did, make "The Green Grass Grew All Around" sound absorbing. The cognoscenti need know no more than that he sang numbers ranging from "Molly Malone" and "On Top of Old Smoky" to "Strange Fruit" and Hard Time Blues." One of the most poised persons in the entertainment world, he handled songs like "John Henry," "The Foggy Foggy Dew," and "The Outskirts of Town" in easygoing style, though he had no microphone. Between his song groups...