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After Ohio's author-farmer Louis Bromfield called Kentucky bluegrass a "noxious weed," Kentucky's Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby and a group of fellow bluegrass fans hopped a plane and headed for Bromfield's Malabar Farm near Mansfield to convert the heretic. First step: the gift of a sack of bluegrass seed. Further inducements: a case of Kentucky bourbon and a home-smoked...
Still floating among the grapefruit rinds and noxious smells of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation's past was the question of its future...
People who cross the intersection of Mount Auburn and Dunster Streets are led by the small to believe that a mere routine sewer operation is taking place. This is how skillful the University has been in disguising its vital Noxious Gas Acclimatization Program...
...English devotional lyricists." At any rate, Brittain's efforts may rescue Smart from his long imprisonment in a literary footnote. He was put there by his onetime friend Dr. Samuel Johnson, who once declared: "I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion...
...shrugs the story off with: "It must be a joke-he can't really mean it." By censoring the Egyptian press and holding the threat of expulsion over foreign correspondents, the Egyptian government for years has tried to conceal Farouk's way of life and other noxious matter lying beneath Cairo's glitter. The King, however, will not cooperate in concealment; his private life is about as private as the Pyramids...