Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ragweed covers about 50% of the cases of hayfever in the U. S. Pollens from certain trees, grasses and weeds are just as irritating. Calvin Coolidge gets his annual attacks when grass begins to flower. At his last birthday July 4, when he went up to Plymouth, Vt., he was so ill that he went to bed for several days. He has been up & around since. But he would not travel to Washington last week for President Hoover's nomination party...
...Denverites will resegregate art and government. Two Denver women, Rachel Schlier and Helen Dill, have already left half a million toward building an art museum in the Civic Centre. It will probably flank the Greek theatre, face the Public Library across an acre of Denver's phenomenally green grass...
...cleared out of the alfalfa field on his son Rudolph's farm. "He put the horses to the buggy rake and set about raking up those thistles. He behaved with guilty caution. . . ." Two days later. Neighbor Rosicky was dead. He was buried in a little square of long grass that seemed right "for a man who had helped to do the work of great cities and had always longed for the open country and had got to it at last...
...freshman at the Huntington Park, Pasadena, High School, Mercer Beasley, famed coach of Tulane University tennis teams, saw him play a match, decided his game was worth developing. Vines went east for the first time in 1930. The way he beat Francis Hunter in the finals of the Metropolitan grass court championship that year was only less surprising than the way he lost to Sidney Wood in the finals at Seabright?when Wood, seeing the one glaring weakness in Vines's game, fed him slow balls for three sets. Since then, Vines has learned how to handle slow balls...
Igloo (Universal) is the latest of many epics showing the prolonged death-grip of Man and remorseless Nature. Nanook of the North did it in 1922. Grass did it in 1925 for the nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...