Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legal adviser of the Prohibition unit, called at the White House office. The President had a cold; so Mr. Volstead departed. As he came out a bevy of cameras ("stills" and "movies") focused their lenses upon him. In desperation he began to run. He dodged and raced over the grass (which is strictly forbidden), behind bushes, around trees, and finally escaped with the cameras still clicking after...
...taught the grass contentment...
...summer workmen have hammered, walls have risen, grass has sprouted in Baltimore where the Wilmer Institute - greatest eye-research laboratory in the world- was being erected, equipped. Last week it was finished. Its fund- begun by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root in gratitude to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who saved her sight (TIME, Feb. 23)-is now $3,000,000. Dr. Wilmer is in complete charge. Rich and poor may go there for healing and only the rich will...
...pass, The lion does not nibble grass...
...team defending it. One of his contributions to tennis was the reverse twist service. But he went back to his native St. Louis and went into public life as a promoter of parks and playgrounds. As Park Commissioner he announced: "If we can't have both people and grass in the parks, we will have people." When the War came he went abroad doing relief work among prisoners, only to return to go into training at Plattsburgh. Then he became a Captain in the Fifth Missouri Regiment and went overseas as Major of the 138th Infantry. Twice...