Word: greensward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi rare is the political alliance that lasts out the winter. No observer would guarantee that the State's Bilbonic plague would endure, while one & all agreed that Pat Harrison probably has something up his sleeves besides the choppy golf swing with which he bruises the delicate greensward of the Burning Tree Club near Washington...
Last week Manhattan hopefuls crowded into the Marie Harriman Gallery to see Derain's two latest and largest works. Both were surprises, though only one was so entitled. In each, somewhat creasy and abundant nudes in classical attitudes were disposed on emerald greensward against a lush mysterious background. La Surprise, even more than Dans la Clalrière, suggested a Titianesque tableau in the golden lighting on the figures, a tracing of Rubens in the figures themselves. Though the smooth crispness of painting, the linked, rounding volumes of the design were the work of a major talent, serious visitors...
...They are your friends. You've seen them a million times--in joy, in pain; as stars, and as goats. Now stop all this talking with yourself, old boy--it's here. . . . He catches the ball. Then--go, go, go--and his legs begin to churn over the greensward...
...first time within the memory of the oldest grizzled inhabitant, that's the long eared man in the Square, successful Freshman football candidates will muss up the greensward of the Stadium in a real game when they meet Brown on October 30 while the Varsity is at Princeton...
...Harlow and his football players kept plugging away. Only to the experts was it obvious that every game saw a better Crimson football team come out on the greensward of the Stadium, but it was true nonetheless. And finally it was proved...