Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors as mean as himself, quick-shooting cattlemen, sandstorms, dishonest politicians. It made hash of sentimental pioneer legends. But it presented a far kindlier version of life on the sod-house frontier than does Slo-gum House, which shows Gulla's successful villainy still ripening in her rotten old age. Overburdened with violence to a point that occasionally touches burlesque, Slogum House is nevertheless written with power, gives a clearer picture of the wild environment than of the people...
...buried in a niche of the Kremlin," as stated in the Oct. 26 issue under France in Foreign Affairs; his remains lie under the sod in a grassy terrace on one side of Lenin's tomb...
With such natural difficulties to surmount as party-line subscribers cut in and out, General Johnson persevered in his dictation, soon developed the point that a storm of this magnitude would have attracted attention around his old prairie home, reached the sentence, "In that sod house the winter's wood was in the shed." Ten minutes later he was still trying to make New York understand "sod house" and "winter's wood." An hour after he began, when both author and syndicate amanuensis were complaining of sore ears, the lines gave out for good on the pregnant phrase...
...there is plowing under to be done, let the press agents, free-publicity-seekers, propagandists and demagogues be the first to be put under the sod...
...Dallas Fair was a shortage of time. Although the Centennial as a whole was planned more than twelve years ago, the Dallas Exposition did not get a good start until last autumn. Over 40 buildings had to be erected, two whole golf courses bought, cut up into sod and used to grass the Exposition. For the last few months, 7,000 to 10,000 workmen have been working three shifts a day. On every job was a big sign reading " - days until June 6. We shall not fail." Last week the fateful numbers on the sign fell from...