Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What happened that year on the centre court at Forest Hills is, as the editorial writers say, "history." That burly Norwegian woman, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, had been champion for a long time. None of the other women could compare with her and she went through to the finals without effort. She seemed at once wiser and more primitive than the California ingénue who faced her, rather pale, under the livid August...
...timetable, found themselves in a park roofed by tall trees. Some dined sumptuously at a restaurant and danced to jazz; others stocked up at the hot-dog stand, or picnicked at rustic tables in the woods; others arrived in evening frocks and white flannels, from dinner parties at Lake Forest or Winnetka. Two thousand spectators sat under a high wooden canopy. (It keeps the rain out and keeps the music within.) Many others sat on the grassy slopes counting stars, spellbound, one night last week, by strains of Puccini...
...Forest, inventor (radio...
...eleventh night the Captain heard the thud of paws, flashed his electric torch on a black and yellow Presence with jewel eyes that leaped out of the forest upon the goat's back. His rifle roared; he knew that his aim had been true, but when he sprang forward to look he found the goat lying dead in a pool of blood with the marks of incredible claws in his back. There was nothing else, no dead marauder. The captain turned upon his gunbearer a face in which horror whitely flickered. Could it be?...
...little Alverna is soon revealed in her true cosmetics?an incorrigible, shallow flirt, bored stiff by Joe's backwoodsmanhood. She tempts Prescott until he has to run away to save his honor; then she overtakes him and completes the seduction. The runaways are pursued through the wilderness by a forest fire and Joe Easter, the fire hanging back just far enough to make an impressive setting for some sterling heroics by Joe when he catches up. Joe has been cleaned out by tricky Indians and now offers 1) to save his good friend Prescott from foolish Alverna; 2) to commit...