Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initials of Henry A. Wallace . . . spell HAW, I suggest as his party's emblem the Haw tree (Viburnum prunifolium), specifically the Black Haw, sometimes called the Stag Bush. Should any artist wish to paint this phenomenon of nature, I give him Charles Sprague Sargent's description (Manual of the Trees of North America; Houghton Mifflin...
...Bush Christmas. Australian children hound the life out of some horse thieves in an engagingly simple adventure story. Children-if not horse thieves-will like it (TIME...
...Bush Christmas. Australian children hound the life out of some horse thieves in an engagingly simple adventure story (TIME...
...Bush Christmas is the story of four white Australian children and one black one who set out, under pretense of a short camping trip, to trail a gang of horse thieves. The youngsters follow the bad men into grand, forlorn, unpeopled mountains. They get lost; they run out of food; they lean more & more on the little black boy's irreducible good cheer and his inherent ability to fend for himself. He teaches them not only how to live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse...
America's poetic dean, Robert Frost, 72, published two books of verse: Steeple Bush and A Masque of Mercy. There were flashes in them both, but Frost's best work seemed behind...