Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sensitive Plant. In Kalispell, Mont., Mrs. Delia M. McKinley, suing for divorce, complained that Mr. McKinley had 1) pulled up all her lilac bushes, 2) torn up her pansy bed, 3) staked a calf in her strawberry patch, 4) mowed the lawn "just to annoy...
...Appeal to its logic.) To the toast you say, "Please don't burn because you're all the bread I have and I'm hungry." (That has sort of the same effect as "You're the only man in the world for me.") To the lawn, "Drink this delicious water and get green so you'll be prettier than the others." (Things love competition...
...green frogs, in Massachusetts-or so said J. P. Valliere of New Bedford, who said he saw them. A Spokane butcher displayed a sign: "Choice Meats: The Management Will Accept Cash, First Mortgages, Bonds and Good Jewelry." Walter W. Brown of Onawa, Iowa lopped off five toes in his lawn mower, found four, had a doctor sew them on again. Lifeguards at Chicago's Oak Street Beach put on shocking-pink trunks to distinguish them from ordinary bathers...
...working his camera, and taking his story notes, Mydans found plenty of evidence why the people of Fukui held the American military governor, Lt. Col. James Hyland, in such high regard. In socks and undershorts, Hyland's instant command was "set up a first aid station on the lawn"-where broken and bleeding Japanese flocked even before the second quake hit a few minutes later. Then, when it was discovered that all communication was cut off, he ordered three reconnaissance teams to fight their way out of the city, and not to come back until they...
...when the lawn...