Word: grassed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...game. But Mr. Carter's advertisements warn: "Patent No. 1,559,520 controls and protects the construction, maintenance, sales and use of Putting Greens and Playing Surfaces of Cotton Seed Hulls or any comminuted flocculent vegetable material, either in a natural state or dyed to simulate grass, and with or without an admixture of binding substance...
...Coolidges (who did not particularly want it) for a trifling sum. The telephone rang constantly (60 calls one hour) ; she had to have two policemen come to prevent curiosity peepers from stampeding the house and ruining the grounds. Said she : "We picked up bushels of burnt matches from the grass every morning. Sightseers would sneak in . . . at night and strike matches to get a better view of the house and gardens, the pool and the tennis court. I used to have to get up at 3:45 every morning to go through all my mail. I had dozens of begging...
...years makes it imperative that the University officials secure all of the available property in this vicinity. Construction of one sort or another has been going on in all of the vacant ground in this section of Cambridge with absolutely no attention or attempt to preserving a few open grass plots. The building plans of the college seem to be aiming at creating a closely packed community of buildings. Should such a goal be achieved, and at present there is no reason to doubt its success, the result will be a city college in a highly unattractive background. The lastest...
...tournament will be held on grass courts so the Harvard representatives will go to Seabright. New Jersey, on Saturday, June 21, where they will put in a day of practice on the grass courts. The men will probably leave Seabright on the following Sunday for Haverford...
Miss Lowell's criticism of Whitman and Dickinson is, on the whole, conservative. She laments the narrowing shelter of Miss Dickinson's friends and points out her great art in "presenting movement." For the author of "Leaves of Grass" she has no superlative praise, but commenting on his writing she declares it is poetry "because he approaches his subject from the poetic point of view." Then comes this significant addition, "what makes a literary work prose or poetry . . . is a matter of approach and of return. By return I mean some device by which a poem is brought continually back...