Word: hemlock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...free verse and cubism, he thought rather well of Dreiser, Cabell, and so much of Proust as he had rather laboriously mastered. He played golf reasonably well, and did not often talk about his scores. He liked fishing in Ontario, but never made himself believe that he preferred hemlock bows to a mattress. He was common sense apotheosized...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge were guests of honor at a Cabinet dinner given by Postmaster General and Mrs. New at their suburban home, Hemlock Hedge...
...state produces more hardwood lumber than any other except Arkansas. And it has on its mountains great wealth in yellow poplar, birch, ash, oak, spruce, hemlock, walnut. They too must be wisely utilized...
...Hoover services in feeding post-War Germany. The picture included "little girls . . . white, emaciated, unsmiling . . . with great awful eyes," and "a woman dressed in black" in Berlin at "that dreadful Christmas season of 1922 . . . the tears streaming down her face, carrying in her hand a little piece of hemlock." At the outset it appeared that Mr. Houghton had been sent to St. Louis to counteract a political canard that Mr. Hoover had been unkind to Germans. But at the end he said, "This is not politics...
Metabel felt lonely; and, save for her dog, Musket, she was all alone as she stepped through the woods that lay along Hemlock mountain. Finally she came to a little low cottage where she went in and stayed. In the cottage lived Uncle Henry, a severe and matter-of-fact person, with his nephew Joseph. There was also Isaiah, an old grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than...