Word: eucalyptus
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Palestine's troubles this summer shattered the eucalyptus-shaded calm of Tabgha Hospice. Tourists kept away, and times became lean for businesslike Father Täpper. Worse, he had a cancer, was operated on at Tiberias. Last month Father Tapper made ready to retire to the land where he was born some 60 years ago. World War I he had escaped. Last week Father Täpper was due in Cologne, in his native Rhineland, to rest his old bones-just as the French and German guns began their restless muttering along the Western Front...
Laguna's flag-bedecked festival site last week was a fenced-in, eucalyptus-shaded vacant lot two blocks from the sea. Under a big top near the puppet-show tent such bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...
Prospectors among the eucalyptus and olive groves of San Francisco's flowering little World's Fair last week struck gold at three points. All three were ambitious installation jobs; none had been completed for the opening, fortnight...
...print pictures of cacti and donkeys in the columns of reader-letters which he compiles every month under the heading "Sunset Gold." He gets some fairly flavorsome inquiries from his readership. Samples: "Dear Mr. Editor, I am troubled with buzzards. How can I shoo them out of my eucalyptus grove...
...those who like the sweet little quaverings of Bobby Breen (and it stands to reason that there are some), "Breaking the Ice" serves up a home-cooked dish with Mennonites, ice-skating extravaganzas, and eucalyptus trees in Pennsylvania. Most people will prefer Donald Duck's current...