Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the plaza are Vice Presi dent Curtis and Speaker Garner. On the statute books is a law prohibiting demonstrations there. To Roy Robertson's picketers went the police order: "Keep out of the plaza, stay off the grass, keep moving." Leader Robertson obeyed. Back & forth behind a soiled U. S. flag filed his men on the far side of the black expanse of asphalt. Food was served them afoot, including 1,000 sandwiches contributed by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Up & down his thin column paced Robertson, exhorting his men in a voice croaky with fatigue. Shoes came...
...sandalwood. He feeds on the tops of red milkweeds and thistles, will flee if approached by man. The smell of the female is exceedingly nauseating. The blue butterfly smells like "newly stirred earth in spring or crushed violet stems." The lesser sulphur exudes the fragrance of dried sweet grass. The orange clover's scent resembles heliotrope. If a cloud obscures the sun it at once seeks a resting place, preferably on something yellow. It is very social. The cloudless clover smells of violets and musk, the cabbage butterfly of mignonette and sweet briar, the yellow swallowtail of "certain brands...
...corners of Crawford's back court. Crawford said afterward that Vines's first serve "seemed to hit the court the same instant it left the racket." Vines followed it to the net and smashed Crawford's returns so hard that the ball kicked up tufts of grass. Crawford put socks over his shoes in the second set. Like his gestures with his racket, it did no good. When Vines had won, 6-2, 6-1, 6-3, he remarked: "It was my one game in a year. I wish I could always hit like that...
There was a great deal to discuss. The Fresh Meadow Course, well-trapped, tricky but comparatively honest, has bent-grass greens that are molded in sly ridges. In addition to this, a high wind blew through the first two rounds. A big California!!, Olin Dutra, had the low score ? 69 ? the first day but everyone said that the man to watch when the wind blew was dark, grinning Jose Jurado of the Argentine, favorite professional of the Prince of Wales, who was playing in his first U. S. Open. Wiry little Jurado hits his shots with an extraordinarily...
...last of Kai Kai's several husbands died more than 35 years ago. All her children and their children are dead. Since 1900 she has lived alone, most of the time in a grass house. About nine years ago she told the Indian Agent at Anadarko to build her a two-room frame cottage and a snug backhouse. That was done. She rents out all but one acre of her Government land allotment to white farmers. They pay her a small amount of cash which suffices her for her weekly drive to town for store groceries. She never goes...