Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Garner theory according to Mr. Krock was that the cattle-i.e., American people -had plenty of grass but that the "stock is being chivied around" so much by "the Administration's cowboys" that it has grown not only thin but nervous. Concluded Mr. Krock: "Having had this pointed out to him in trenchant Panhandle trope . . . Mr. Roosevelt may begin to believe and apply the blunt Texas counsel." This week it was reported that blunt Texas counsel had turned thumbs down on further deficit spending, that Mr. Roosevelt might take the issue to the microphone...
...began by making bird cages in 1870. First automobile was made in 1901. By the time of the World War the plant was booming on truck contracts for the Army. The company was bought by Studebaker in 1928, in 1929 had net earnings of $2,566,112. Left a grass widow when Studebaker went into receivership, Fierce-Arrow lost $3,000,000 in 1932 in the face of Depression and better cheap cars. In 1933 a group of Buffalo businessmen paid $1,000,000 for the Pierce plant, tried a $2,300 car (previously Pierces cost as much...
With a good pick up on your car you can hit a pedestrian at twenty paces.* There are more taxi drivers than students, and more yard cops than professors. In President Wigglesworth's time the college played a man $2000 a year to mow grass in front of Lehman Hall, which was then a stable. The man's name was Harvard, and he had a square wooden leg, and consequently when he came to the end of the lawn, he could only turn a sharp corner. These sharp corners formed a square, which came to be called "Harvard's Square...
...were founded to "emulate John Barnard of the Class of 1700, who was fond of good books and did what he could for Harvard." This is the fourth publication of the society which has already issued facsimiles of the Shelley Notebook and one of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," both owned by the College Library...
...Angeles, after 43 years, Mrs. Elsie Pearl Minser tired of supporting her husband, paying him taxi fare to drive her to work in his car, paying him for cutting the grass in their yard, obtained a divorce...