Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secondary school proud seniors and spindling freshmen alike are warned by fingershaking teachers or pleading editorials not to defile the newly-grown grass, not to sully instantly with careless feet what Mother Nature has taken months to produce, or not to muddy ground that was green. These expressions are assimilated into one curt thought: Do Not Walk on the Grass...
During the years that grass has flourished in the Yard the holy ones who guide the destiny of Harvard have seen to it that enough paths were laid down to keep wayward souls on the straight and narrow. They have spread a network of labyrinthine footways over the Yard. If this will not keep all upon the concrete, there will be no grass...
...cattle tick, unengorged, is about 1/10 by 1/20 of an inch. It is light yellowish or light greyish brown. The hatching larvae crawl up grass or weed stems and attach themselves to a passing animal. There they grow to adulthood in about 30 days, living on the blood of the host. They mate on the host, the female drops to the ground, lays her eggs, and dies. Fever induced by the tick kills cattle, stunts them, lowers their milk flow, damages their skins and hides...
...with an extraordinary mess of stuffed birds, shells and European art acquired in Dresden and Paris on his one trip abroad. Ten years later his widow gave the treasures and the gallery to the city of Sacramento, which later acquired the mansion and for 50 years faithfully mowed the grass on the Crocker lawn. Curator of the gallery during all that time was an easy-going character named William Franklin Jackson, who let old Judge Crocker's paintings gather dust while he painted California landscapes...
...Duchess De Croy, provided the league with a list of all the old horses in Belgium. Whenever the League finds a British Warhorse and has enough money on hand, they buy it for about $100, take it to the League's stables in. Brussels, put the horse to grass for perhaps the first time in 18 years, later send it to Britain to be "pensioned off" in some country paddock...