Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought a small arsenal of pistols, rifles, machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition into the National, poured back a withering, effective fire. Soldiers who tried to rush the hotel were dropped in their tracks by sharpshooting officers, died writhing, groaning and gushing blood upon the grass. Fascinated by this sight was a U. S. meat-packing executive, Robert G. Lotspiech, Swift & Co.'s assistant sales manager in Havana. As he watched from the eleventh floor terrace of the nearby Lopez Serrano Apartments, a stray bullet drilled him through the heart...
Many were the Pre-Raphaelitish extracurricular activities. They published a short-lived magazine, Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property...
...from 15 to 12. Of these not more than eight may be canvasback, redhead, scaup, teal, shoveler or gadwall. (Last year's limit on this list, which included ringneck, was ten.) Brant may be shot on the Pacific Coast, not on the Atlantic where their principal food, eel grass, has almost disappeared (TIME, Aug. 21). Cackling geese are unprotected for the first time since...
...bitter French peasant in a Hawaiian grass skirt was driving a span of oxen at Brissac near Tours last week. In the same held another team pulled a heavy plow under the vicious prodding of a gold-laced Spanish matador. Out in the same farm's kitchen garden a Chinese mandarin was watering the kohlrabi. In the stable reporters found a sullen Frenchman in the bonnet and kilts of a Gordon Highlander forking manure...
Presenting their side of an old debate, sportsmen last week declared that: 1) Recent surveys in the U.S. and Canada indicate no alarming shortage of waterfowl, except brant, on which, because they have been so hard hit by the disappearance of eel grass (TIME, Aug. 21), the Advisory Board recommended a closed season; 2) on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, where most natural duck food has disappeared, and in the built-up Illinois valley, wintering waterfowl depend on sportsmen's grain for their food supply; 3) stoppage of baiting would close many a shooting club, throw many a bayman...