Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of his observations with the words "Say" or "Listen." He likes aphorisms, posts his office walls with signs such as: "A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere," and: "Nothing is so conducive to thought as the sheriff," is deeply interested in why grass is green. Last year Mr. Kettering made...
...recent gubernatorial elections in Kentucky [TIME, Nov. 18 et ante] may well lift the Blue Grass State to a new role in National Politics...
...ideal cycling ground as modern civilization will produce. But there is a hitch. This lovely greensward is under the jurisdiction of the hard-hearted Metropolitan District Police. Every afternoon the men in gray swoop down in Neon-lighted cars or rude motorcycles and drive the pleasure seekers from the grass. There are no exceptions. The loveliest bare kneed girl from the halls of Radcliffe, the most pitiful youngster, the most loquacious college boy, all on bicycles are as unwelcome as an epidemic of German Measles. Why should this be? What barm do the cyclists do? What dangers do they bring...
Fierce-Arrow is that rarity among corporations, a grass widow. It was married to Studebaker in 1928 but during Depression both parties might well have pleaded nonsupport. Divorce came in August 1933 when Studebaker receivers sold Fierce-Arrow to a group of Buffalo businessmen for $1,000,000. Nine-month sales in 1935 were 583, far behind the 1,399 sales for the same 1934 period...
...settled near the upper Niobrara River. He had studied medicine in Zurich, quarreled with his father, left for the U. S. to make his fortune. In Nebraska he married only to leave his wife because she "refused to build the morning fires, to run through the frosty grass to catch up his team." Locating his homestead at a time when cattlemen were driving off settlers with guns, when mail was held up at the nearest post office for as long as six months, Jules fought with his neighbors, his three succeeding wives, with the law, with fellow-countrymen and friends...