Word: elm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burgoyne's army in Cambridge, the Washington Elm, the Vassall House, and the Loyalists, form the themes of these vigorous and informative essays...
...landed in England. It had made it seem appropriate for a swarm of disabled War veterans to join in and freshen up New York's rather overdone greeting ceremony and for Boston, on the occasion of its tercentenary, to give him a "Constitutional Big Stick" cut from an elm on Lexington Battlefield and to call him one of the three foremost defenders and upholders of Liberty and the Constitution (TIME, Sept. 29). It had furnished him a text for a national radio speech on the sanctity of the U. S. passport and had given his newshawks a standing heckle-question...
...usual, the U. S. G. A. had seeded the draw with great care. Jones's first and second round opponents were two Canadian players, C. Ross Somerville and F. C. Hoblitzel, and he beat each of them 5 & 4. Meanwhile, blond, wiry George Von Elm, and stocky, curly-haired Maurice McCarthy played the best match of the tournament-a match that went ten extra holes before McCarthy won it with a pitch that stopped a few inches from the cup. Von Elm came within one ball-revolution of sinking his 15-ft. putt for a half. McCarthy had played...
...round with a 69 (one under par). "This cane," bellowed Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley on Boston Day last week, in a voice audible for blocks along Boston's Tremont Street, "is one of three known as Constitutional Big Sticks. Three canes were cut from an elm tree which grew on the spot [battlefield of Lexington, Mass.] where the movement for the establishment of American liberty had its inception. These canes are given to the.- three foremost defenders and upholders of liberty and the Constitution in America: William Randolph Hearst, William Green, president of the American Federation...
September smelts its autumnal ore in skies of glowing gold. The cicada shrills, a drowsy not steals into the crickets' chime, elm leaves rust toward the pensive melancholy of their yellowing. Such rites of the year's decay are reminders of the academic year's renewal. It is time to go back to school, and this week six hundred lucky Harvard undergraduates, having returned to their studies, live in two of the most stately new schoolhouses over built in America, houses so beautiful one would think that after having once lived in them the rest of life would be exile...