Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agents abroad (he had 20 before the war). They were looking for anything they could get at a reasonable price. Most of all they wanted to buy the okapi, a purplish-brown, short-necked relative of the giraffe, worth $10,000 to $15,000, the reddish, striped, forest antelope, known as the bongo, sometimes priced as high as $20,000. There is only one of each now in this country both in New York's Bronx Zoo. The Indian rhinoceros* and giant panda were in the same diamond and sable class. Less valuable were Siberian tigers (about...
...branded in stripes from the pattern on his shirt. The gay, flowered designs on the dresses of Japanese women were stenciled in charred exactitude upon their bodies. A mile and a half from the bomb, the flash of heat was strong enough to blister the ace or set a forest afire...
...Charley-Look here, have the Am. Pub. Co. swindled me out of only $2,000? I thought it was five"; "I have this idea: to paint the white marble (which immediately surrounds [my] hall fireplace) the same strong red of the hall walls, & then cover it with Mr. De Forest's thin arabesque-cut brass sheets. . . . Ask . . . if that can be done"; "Go to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Hudson R.R. and see if they will rent me a special sleeping car. . . . Go directly to the President of the Company. . . . Hurry!"; "No provision is made for a wooden barrack...
Dubbed the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" by their creator Mrs. Frances G. Lee of Littleton, New Hampshire, they correspond in their purpose to the Pitman forest models which show a New England hillside undergoing contour and seasonal changes. Each setting depicts the scene of the tragedy as it would appear just before the medical examiner or policeman might arrive. Accompanying the model is such information as a detective might have obtained by interrogation up to the time he walked in the door...
Died. The Very Rev. Joseph Herman Hertz, 73, Slovakia-born, U.S.-educated, since 1913 Chief Rabbi of the British Empire's United Hebrew Congregations, pillar of orthodoxy and Zionism (a forest in Galilee was named for him); in London...