Word: birches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother's Day (May 8) in Arlington National Cemetery, the Gold Star Mothers honored the Unknown Soldier and the Unknown Soldier's Mother. Schoolchildren threw soil from all the States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul...
...Wildwood, N.J., John Birch. 28, danced eight weeks in a dance marathon, danced into the ocean, was drowned...
...Physical Colloquium, Monday, in the Cruft Laboratory Lecture Room, C. K. Jen will speak on "A New Treatment of Electron Tube Oscillators" and I. F. Birch is to lecture on "Concentrated Space Charge in Calcite." The talks occur at 4.45 o'clock after a tea served in the library of the New Physics Laboratory...
...this country we seek to compel obedience to law by . . . death, imprisonment, fines. In England and Canada flogging by birch or by 'the cat' also is in-flicted." Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the President's Law Enforcement Commission, now preparing its report at Washington, wrote that in a paper read for him last week before the American Prison Association at Louisville, Ky. He concluded: "A careful inquiry . . . may well be made to determine the desirability of employing [flogging] in the war against banditry and racketeers...
...first portraits, he turned to mural decoration "because there seemed to be a call for that sort of thing." Shortly thereafter he got a divorce, and, exhilarated, turned out an amazing series of panels and screens, one of which, showing a horde of giraffes nibbling the tender branches of birch trees, now stands in the Luxembourg Museum...