Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Airplanes from McCook Field, Dayton, often fly over London, Ohio. The aviators, looking down at the spring countryside, watch the housewives of London spread their laundered sheets, smaller than a doll's handkerchiefs, to dry on the grass. The housewives rarely glance at the aviators. Why should they bother? Yet last week a housewife looked at her sheets and then at the sky and telephoned McCook Field. Then the voice of another matron harangued one of the ground pilots; others followed. Each had much the same complaint to make; the planes were, or rather they had-well, just...
Five men on the University tennis team will make the trip to Haverford, Pa., at the end of next week, in order to compete for the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Championship. The tournament will be held on the grass courts of the Merion Cricket Club, beginning on June...
...most of our examinations are adapted to acertain little except knowledge, which tends to promote mere cramming; whereas the tests in the grass school of active life depend rather upon the ability to use information Surely examinations can be framed to measure not only knowledge, but the ability to comprehend and correlate what is known. In short, to test the grasp of a subject as a whole...
...great trouble," he says simply, "in leaving out the stock poetical touches, but succeeded at last." Five versions of Leaves of Grass have been cast to wind, water and fire, after bitter hours of solitude in the lee of basaltic boulders on a sand-strewn promontory. The sixth version is stark flesh and marrow with life's tide flooding, pounding through...
Aloma of the South Seas. Gilda Gray, graduate of barroom dance halls of the Middle West, has made her first picture. She has taken a grass-skirt story of a native girl in love with a visiting American. After various struggles with his girl from America and Aloma's coffee-colored lover, it turns out, miraculously, that she is really a white girl after all. Miss Gray, while no Bernhardt, holds up her end of the acting capably enough. She also shimmies boldly and with emphasis. That, after all, is her life work and the thing she seems...