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Word: grasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prunella", the dean of all whimsicalities and most of Barrie. Shabby Pierrot, tended by the lustreless Vermilia for whom he once left Columbine, wears a flannel muffler as he sits in the garden where love had been. The garden is unkempt, and the leaves on its dead grass...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

They sent him a card and told him he had to practise. He went back and labored the long miles. Hurry up! they howled. I stood by the boathouse and saw him weld nerve and sinew to sprint the last stretch. He crossed the line, and fell on the grass...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

...useful he is! He digs for the grub of the June bug that eats the roots of the grass. That is why he tears up the lawn. A skunk in the front yard and a crow on the ridgepole is grass insurance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apropos the Skunk | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...Joseph Heights, Ky., in order to get rabbits for a stew, Bernard Meiners went hunting with his .gun. Soon he saw Oily, a horse belonging to the Sisters of Notre Dame, moving about in the grass. Supposing Oily to be a rabbit, Bernard Meiners took aim, fired, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Morse and her Blue Grass Boys whose voice her press agent proclaims as "That Mellow Swanee Voice" honks I MUST HAVE THAT MAN and MISSISSIPPI MUD. However--done will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

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