Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Splawn is the name -Splawn of Wise County. He has grown up with Texas; knew the prairies when cowboys trailed flaming kerosene-soaked lariats over it for miles to burn off dead grass and shrubbery that their cattle might eat in the spring. He saw the farms come, land go up, towns spring into being. He attended Decatur College, Decatur, Ill., refused an appointment to West Point and entered Baylor University, at Waco...
...Critics. The Literary Review. "In these parlous times of realism, Donn Byrne is the blade of green, romantic grass in a long, long stretch of sand. Baptize him 'Oasis' if you will...
...blade of green, romantic grass in a long, long stretch of sand...
Little horses, nervy and debonair, clipping the turf with pointed hoofs, mallets whacking, riders shouldering, wheeling, while young Royalty looks on. At Meadow Brook, the background is grass; at the Wanamaker Art Gallery, Manhattan, it is canvas. An exhibit of Poloiana has opened there. A wooden pony, smartly blanketed, stands at the end of the gallery-a silent symbol of the stable. The room is rigged with saddles, flags, balls, mallets; scenes of the game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient...
...third ticket' there will be a permanent 'third party.' Will it need leaders? It will. Senator LaFollette is sick and aging. So Senator Wheeler shoots in the back the party that sent him to the Senate and fares forth in search of new political grass and water-courses...