Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gesticulating horsemen in the lobby of the Sellbach Hotel in Louisville had excitedly repeated the name of Bubbling Over for weeks, telling how this chestnut son of North Star III had smashed every fractional record up to a mile and an eighth when he won the Blue Grass stakes at Lexington by eight lengths. Eight lengths! That was the way Man-o'-War used...
...fall into two groups: the bulletin boards and the journals of opinion. The bulletin boards are harmless sheets packed full of college gossip. Criticism of the University is seldom ventured. The editorials exhort the students to Back the Team, warn freshmen of the evil consequences of Walking on the Grass, and advise the use of Better English...
...many have been the complaints of those who see in these continuous couchings of various individuals upon the Yard grass at all times and sundry one more example of primitivism that curse of curses and anathema of anathemae. Nor or they far from wrong...
There is a place for everything and everything in its place--and that is not the grass of the Yard. When the bovine and divine contact little is left of the Aristotelian ambition for a thinking man--and yet--one must admit that the stones of Widener steps grow no softer with the years. So perhaps these Rousseauistic recumbants are a bit justified--perhaps...
...when the Yard grass sports a splendid green...