Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patients in the General Hospital at Kansas City, Mo., were disturbed shortly before midnight, one night last week, by a loud explosion and a sudden flash of light. Then the night resumed its quietude and its blackness. Next day, investigators found a burned patch of grass on the hospital grounds and a few small holes, less than two inches in diameter, in the earth. A fireball (meteor) had hit Kansas City...
...Symphonic recreation in the short-grass country, as related by the Kinsley correspondent of the Kansas City Times...
...Miss Cecil Leitch, champion 1914, 1920, 1921, 1926. Miss Leitch, however, marched with the "brolly" brigade, carrying her shelter in her left hand. Down from the Irish skies shot a bolt of Irish lightning, ran down the spines of Miss Leitch's umbrella, knocked her flat on the grass, put her arm out of golfing commission for a fortnight...
...Bourget (Paris airport) hundreds of humans were squatting, dancing, shouting on a flat and barren plain in the dead of night. Revelers in. evening clothes uncorked champagne bottles for actresses who did not mind sitting on the grass. Peasants were satisfied with good red wine and longish sandwiches. Suddenly, at 3:15 a. m., the plainsfolk scampered toward other folk who cheered as a huge, ghostly bird emerged from a huger tent...
...Delta Building, the useful but unsightly frame structure that has occupied the corner of Kirkland and Quincy Streets since its construction during the war, is disappearing. It is being rapidly torn down to be replaced by green grass and pleasant verdure...