Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demolition of Shepherd Hall will begin toward the end of this month, James Biggar '13, manager of University real estate and caretaking, disclosed yesterday. No new construction is expected to occupy the ground, Biggar said; the University Intends to cultivate it as a grass plot...
...fruitful Picardy. Serving its 244 villagers were a church, a mairie (town hall), a schoolhouse, a grocery, a carpenter's shop. One day last year the gale of battle ripped through Le Bosquel. Now only mounds of rubble and white stone doorsteps remain, lying in the tall grass like overgrown gravestones...
...Petty Officer Arthur Prettyman, Mr. Roosevelt's genial valet (see cut). Five-year-old Fala attended the Hyde Park burial services with his former mistress, the President's cousin Margaret Suckley (who has taken him back), cowered and whimpered at the gun salute, rolled over on the grass (the President's favorite Fala trick) during the hymn. In spite of barking furiously at the parting volleys, he was led away quietly at the end-still the best-behaved of Roosevelt pets (predecessors nipped ex-Senator Hattie Caraway and wolfed down a dozen plates of ham & eggs from...
...Packers are buying the cheaper-and lighter weight-grass-fed cattle instead of corn-fed cattle. Reason: because the prices of corn and range cattle are high, fattened cattle are too expensive. Midwest feed-lot operators charged that this resulted in a senseless waste of meat. Cattle moving from the ranges to the feedlots for finishing on corn would gain 300 to 500 Ibs. of rich, marble-grained beef...
...Royal, and hail the first passing perambulator. Santayana met this young poet at Oxford. Johnson looked 16, was small, pale, with small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana saw him ten years later, he was a tragic spectacle. Johnson still looked very young, "but pale, haggard and trembling. He stood by the fireplace, with...