Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilot Collins. He was smiling feebly. "Pull me out, boys," he gasped, "I'm all through." Someone wiped the blood from his face with a handkerchief. "Never mind that," he whispered. "I'm done." They lifted him out of the debris and laid him on the grass to die. Soon the photographers arrived...
...world of clouds and seas and palaces, drawn in delicate color. His companions, natives of Slumberland, were a lovely little Princess, daughter of King Morpheus; an officious, green-faced fellow named Flip who always wore a yellow top hat and held a long cigar between his huge lips; a grass-skirted savage named Impie. Last panel in every page showed Nemo at home, in bed, waking from his dream...
...Brockton. Mass., a gang of small boys elected Edward Smith, 9, and Robert Dobryzinski, 8, to play the cowboys in a game of "Cowboys and Indians." The Indians captured the cowboys, lashed them to a tree, heaped paper and dry grass around them and lit the execution fire. The cowboys watched the fire nervously while the Indians went dancing, shouting and screaming in a victory dance. Suddenly they heard a higher screaming, stopped. Robert Dobryzinski had wiggled free but Edward Smith's clothing was on fire. The boy died in the hospital...
...Spring was coming along, all right. It was nice to see grass again even last year's moldy brown grass, and as he slowly revolved his mind, he remembered that he had even seen a few buds this morning. Again he stretched, a long, slow stretch, and then relaxed, lying flat on his back, his eyes vaguely focussed on that happy land somewhere beyond the ceiling...
...GRASS GROWS GREEN-Hortense Lion-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Family novel of German-Americans...