Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have allowed no grass to grow under our feet. We've already started conversations with the United States. I am not a prophet and I am not going to pose as one able to prophetize, but today we had the second conversation with General Dawes and Mr. Gibson, and I am very hopeful...
...groan, then a mingled roar from the huge gallery outside, told Espinosa that something had happened to Jones's second shot on the final hole. Heading for a trap to the left of the green the ball had stopped just short, in rough grass. The next thing Espinosa heard was a loud, but not wholehearted, cheer. Jones had pitched up, but his ball had stopped 12 feet short of the pin. "Let me look," blurted Espinosa and went to the locker room window...
...gallantry, love. Baboons getting away from a fire, with fast, soft paws and little eyes brightened by fear and a far flame's reflection; bull hippopotamuses lunging down to the water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year and a half and was worth it. Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them a silly but exciting story about an Englishman whose best friends hand him white feathers when they find out he is scared of going to war against the blacks. When his sweetheart...
...still free and that the poor did not have to pay anything to watch the rich dine in their park. To point the issue even more, on the day the Casino opened, 93 ordinary citizens were haled to court, fined for eating their lunches on newspapers spread on the grass of their park. Onetime Mayor John Frances ("Red Mike") Hylan, again a candidate for that office, was quick to make use of the political potentialities of the new Casino. "A night club for the 400 in Central Park." roared he over the radio, "would never have been permitted during...
...down on the grass, and when he turned his back to me I let him have it in the head...