Word: cypress
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...violins. The tympanist does sleight of hand. Dis sonances pile on dissonances, savagely conflict and swirl away into new combinations. Stage honors went not to any performer but to Donald M. Oenslager, who made a highly effective setting out of castle walls, a great flight of steps and two cypress trees standing against an Oriental...
...Imperial Palace at Tokyo the cypress bathtub was prepared. To disperse the evil spirits loud plangent sounds were made by a general and three viscounts twanging bowstrings. A screen was set up behind the tub and behind the screen knelt Dr. Ichimura and Dr. Mikami -savants equivalent in Japan to the President of Harvard and the President of Yale. Into the tub went the Empire's nameless, seven-day-old Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. 1). While he was washed, the voices of the savants reading from ancient books were louder than the bowstrings. Clean after his first bath...
...hour day and an average 36-hour week for the year. Minimum pay: $5 per day for underground workers; $4 per day for outside men. Employes did not have to live in company houses or trade at company stores. Lumber. Work & wages ranged from 48 hours at $10.80 for cypress and pine men in the South to 40 hours at $18 for Philippine mahogany. In West Coast logging camps the minimum rate was to be $20.40 for 48 hours. This code made a bow toward forestry conservation but General Johnson said he would not even consider a 48-hour week...
...which Jimmy Doolittle made a world record of 294 m.p.h. Wedell-Williams is a unique combination consisting of one-eyed, tousle-mopped "Jimmy" Wedell, 33, Texas bartender's son, onetime barnstormer; and rich, suave, happy-go-lucky Harry Palmerton Williams, son of the late Louisiana cypress tycoon Frank Williams. To the devoted Cajun and Negro swampers of Patterson, La., the one-street milltown over which he and his wife (onetime Film Actress Marguerite Clark) reign in baronial style, "Mister Harry" is known as "the Speed Kid." He had already made himself a local god with fast horses, fast automobiles...
...When the rest of the children married and moved away, with old Lant dead, the youngster stepped easily into his daddy's shoes. For a while he made a good living for his mother and himself by hunting and fishing. Then hard times came. Lant salvaged and rafted cypress logs down to the sawmill; when there were no more to salvage he made the supreme sacrifice of trying to get a job in a mill. But he was just as pleased when there were no jobs to be had: he would rather have starved in the scrub than...