Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giorgione, among others, led Oswald (The Decline of the West) Spengler to regard his work as the last gasp of great Western painting, yet his experiments caused Andre (The Voices of Silence) Malraux to call him the first modern artist. Perhaps he was both; certainly his Lunch on the Grass (opposite) stands as a kind of pylon in painting history...
...grass was green . . . And green and golden, I was huntsman...
Rain, mud, and wet grass have forced athletes to delay their activities on diamonds, tennis courts, and even on the golf course until the time when their equipment can be dusted off instead of wiped with...
...spring. For generations, every Easter Monday, young Washingtonians have been aroused at cockcrow and subjected to the city's egg rolls. On that day thousands of citizens flock to the Lion House hill at the Zoo to hurl Easter eggs around, lounge in the sun, litter the grass, trample on other citizens, and harass the police and the National Parks maintenance men. Hundreds more attend egg rollings at churches, schools and private homes. But the biggest numbers always converge on the White House. Last week, as usual, the grounds of the Executive Mansion looked like a mob scene...
...abundance, everybody got tired before coming to "sidesies" and simply ate the eggs. At the White House last week, nobody bothered to roll eggs or pick eggs or butt eggs; it was much more fun to throw eggs at one another or to mash them into the grass. Calling Mr. Bailey. In preparation for the big romp, gardeners rolled out 3,000 feet of storm fencing to protect flower beds, shrubbery and the presidential putting green. (Many visitors draped themselves over the fence around the green in the hope of finding lost golf balls as souvenirs.) Shortly before noon, President...