Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spot of bare earth about as big as a monocle, in the surface of a grass tennis court, in Orange, N. J., William T. Tilden II, National Lawn Tennis Champion, glared. There were many other such spots in the court, which was not a very good one. During the course of his game, Champion Tilden glared at most of them. Sometimes, indeed, he stopped short and addressed them in terms that involved the names of prominent Biblical characters. The spectators pitied Champion Tilden's trouble with the spots, which assuredly gave an abominable twist to many of the balls...
...appears they are having the same sort of trouble with their Freshmen at Princeton but it manifests itself in just the opposite way. The Princeton Freshmen won't wear their green caps, they walk on the grass, and refuse to change clothes more than three times a day--and they flaunt their insubordination in the faces of the Sophomores. It is easy to see that the situation has become unbearable, for the Chairman of the Sophomore Vigilance Committee in a letter to the Princetonian complains of Princeton indifference on this all-important question. In spite of the fact that...
...famed stable of the late August Belmont, being sold by a red-faced auctioneer. No one told him of the prices: how his father, Fair Play, went to Joseph E. Widener for $100,000; his mother, Mahubah, brought a miserable $8,000; his friends Dona Rocca and Blue Grass $40,000 and $27,000 respectively...
...British Isles there are 750,000 golfers-esquires who dig their own graves with their niblicks, Englishmen wha' ha' wi' Wallace bled their shillings on every green, Scots wahighing their short approaches, wahoing the long grass with their mashies, plus-four scorers who shyly admit that the only shot they are sure of is their fourth putt. Even of these, many get about a course with 72-odd clips, but only three play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch...
During these balmy Spring afternoons when all nature contrives to make it hard to study, another condition, natural enough to be sure, but unlike the others, subject to human control, adds to the students' difficulties. The nice green grass in the Yard, and its general park-like appearance attract throngs of happy children to gambol and frolic up and down the steps of Widener and all about the buildings, filling the air with their merry shouts and laughter. Nothing is more truly delightful than the spontaneous merriment of children, but innocent and pleasing as it may be, a library where...