Word: gosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense. In Chicago, Julius Goss pointed out to police that it was illogical to accuse him of setting a church afire, since for 48 years he had made his living robbing poor boxes...
...course was paying off. To Pupils Penick and Goss came payments for short stories from Collier's and the Atlantic Monthly; to Pupils Morgan and Flynn came advances from Publishers Farrar & Rinehart. These were new testimonials to Teacher Hudson Strode of the University of Alabama and his course in creative writing, English...
...puff away at his pipe and look at the record. Although he says of his course, "We do not write to sell, and I think a lot of the best stuff has not sold at all," the record has an exceedingly successful ring to it: ¶ Pupil John Mayo Goss's check from the Atlantic was for a short story, Bird Song; the 50-year-old ex-adman's story was the 25th to be sold by a Strode student...
...Girls (see cut), a lithograph by Margaret Goss of a blank-faced blond girl and a deadpan colored girl sitting side by side on a settee, was the high point in race-consciousness-with-humor...
...grass is Zoysia matrella (Manila grass), an oriental variety with which U.S. horticulturists began to experiment five years ago. Park Superintendent Leo Goss of Louisville has covered four acres of Seneca Park with Zoysia, spread its fame among U.S. greenskeepers. Propagated from runners* instead of seed, Zoysia spreads quickly, crowds out even crab grass. It has already been planted in a number of Southern airfields and country clubs...