Word: ailanthus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Academy in St. Louis, later moved on to Milton Academy near Boston. Wherever he was, he felt out of place. He wrote later: "I had always been a New Englander in the Southwest and a Southwesterner in New England. In New England I missed the long dark river, the ailanthus trees, the flaming cardinal birds ... of Missouri; in Missouri I missed the fir trees, the hay and goldenrod, the song-sparrows, the red granite and the blue sea of Massachusetts...