Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houston, Texas last week, A.F. of L's Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union demanded that proprietors of drive-in, curb-service restaurants pay their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...
...young men in national costume moved from place to place, dancing in each village, in a four-week jaunt that dates from the days of the dancing priests of Attis. Over the white, dusty plains of Hungary, where white oxen and long-horned cattle range on the tough grass, the 3,000,000 peasants were out in their fields and the movement of people through the countryside was under way-a seasonal awakening as regular and as mysterious as the migration of sturgeon from the Black Sea each year...
...India's farmers scratched the soil, he produced a cheap, deep-cutting plow, still called the "Wah-wah plow" from the exclamations of surprise it causes. In spite of Hindu religious prejudices, Sam Higginbottom put sacred cows on a paying basis, encouraging farmers to put them on forage grass instead of feeding them from their meagre stocks of provisions...
...racing fans know that England's famed Derby, prototype of all U. S. derbies, is run on grass instead of dirt, over a U-shaped track instead of an oval, up-&-down-hill instead of on the flat and over a distance of i| miles instead of i|. But every U. S. racing fan knows that the English Derby is the most famed horse race in the world, is the basis for one of the three Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes held each year and that some $4,000,000 of U. S. money is gambled annually on the Derby lottery...
...their clean and spacious solidity. "Storage Plant" embodies precision without loss of emotional content. The use of clear color together with his distinctive way of turning a relatively unimportant subject into an impressive, work of art; gives a natural force to Hopper's paintings. His clear, cloudless skies, fresh grass, and firm buildings, make a person momentarily forget that he is inside a museum...