Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grass Roots. "Bill has never done anything wrong. He has always been more than glad to do favors in a nice way," said Mother Clara Boyle last week as she reminisced about the family's beginnings. He and his twin brother Russell (now an Army colonel) were born in 1902 in Leavenworth, Kans., where their father was a broomcorn merchant. They were a devoutly lighthearted Irish Catholic family of five. The twins went to Cathedral School in Leavenworth, where a stern rule forbade the playing of mumblety peg on the front lawn. "Bill liked to have fun," said Clara...
...sense of the melody of verse . . . fortunately [he has] better claims on the gratitude of his countrymen than any he will ever derive from his vocation as a poet . . . His duties in the hospitals at Washington during the war will confer honor on his memory when Leaves of Grass are withered and Drum Taps have ceased to vibrate...
...Then we heard a voice behind us command, 'Lie down flat on you stomache and put your faces in the grass...
Previously, only petty stealings such as ash trays, hoop races, and grass skirts have been reported. If the owl is not returned however, Wellesley threatens to hold no more mixers. It may even cancel teas. All it wants to know, obviously...
...writing with the single-minded purposefulness of a dedicated man. Finally, he became a virtual recluse: his neighbors rarely saw him. Last year, the neighbors discovered that Adamic and his wife had simply vanished-their house was standing with locked doors and drawn shades amid a rising jungle of grass and plants...