Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Staggerbears inhabited the Happy Hills country where they roamed the shady dells covered with the shining mahogany grass where the fizzbells bloomed or rambled in the glades where there was a musical tinkle dripping from the keg trees. The streams gurgled with ice water, the brandy bees buzzed over the wild eggnog vines and the rumroots grew juicy in the earth beneath the sherry berry thickets...
...third. He smote five goals in the game; J. Watson Webb smote two; Devereux Milburn, U. S. captain, one. Malcolm Stevenson, fourth player on the team, smote none, but played valiantly. In the seventh chukker he slipped from his horse and lay, a white figure, on the green grass. His knee. struck by a fiercely-driven ball, was paralyzed. He rose; walked around; remounted; finished the game...
Ancient and honorable veterans; callow and honorable fledglings; famed and honorable champions walked upon the grass at the Minikahda Club, Minneapolis...
...green leather of China turf, each holding in his hand a great smooth ball of polished wood. It was a picture in suave bright colors infused with a slow and graceful motion. There would be a swish of light brilliance above the lawn, a brush of spinning wood on grass, a far-away microscopically delicate click as wood touched porcelain. The game was first to pitch balls into a circle, then to make later balls touch or rest close to the original-like a marbles match, played by dignified giants. When it was over, muttering clipped but vociferous explanations...
...more than twice that amount. There would be the Overnight at Jamaica, a debut won as a whippet would win from airdales, the Keene Memorial and the Juvenile Stakes at Belmont, two races at Aqueduct-five golden afternoons, all full of sunshine and moving figures, the smell of grass and leather, the sound of cheers and hurrying hoofs...