Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four dignified law school students sat upon the green grass in front of Langdell Hall yesterday at noon. They basked in the warm sun, yet they seemed to ignore it, for they were intent upon the work before them. Their pipes were held clenched in their teeth, removing them from time to time, only as if to punctuate an unspoken sentence. Gravity was written all over their faces, as they stared fixedly at the ground before them...
Massive law books lay scattered around them in disorder, admonishing the sun for making Spring so evident, and all the little creatures of the grassy world crawled over the green book bags seeking the nature of this new kind of grass...
Hulas call for words as well as music. The dancer sings them, is free to improvise or repeat. She gives the accompanying musicians their cues, establishes the time with her swaying hips. Different dances require different costumes. Huapala wore grass skirts, tapa gowns, the Mother Hubbard cloak introduced by missionaries. She described in words and gestures the districts of Hawaii, the torments of despised loves, the varieties of Hawaiian fish. Connoisseurs were interested in her seated dances wherein she swayed from the waist, wriggled sinuous arms, clicked a pair of pebbles called ili ili. Mikel Hanapi, dressed in a cape...
...main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets!" Jay Gould put through his branch line after all, but with it, his unpleasant prophecy started to come true. The railroad made Jefferson's tributary back country independent of the port. That same year (1873) Government engineers decided Big Cypress Bayou was flooding farms and villages...
McLaglen's performance is careful and restrained. As Danny O'Neill, the kidnapper of Nancy Steele, he fits perfectly into a role which might easily have been mishandled by a less capable actor. Excellent acting is also contributed by Peter Lorre in a typical snake-in-the-grass part, by Walter Connolly as the father of the kidnapped girl, and by June Lang as Nancy Steele...