Word: oak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...setting with all its manifold possibilities is worked into the story only so far as in necessary to give piquancy to the romance involved. The tale might be likened to a poplar with its clinging shoots, where it could have been made an oak with spreading branches. The teller has rather sought to show how marvellously romance, like a flag-pole, can cleave space than bow completely life can fulfill, clothe, and likewise protect itself, with fit and simple foliage...
...Flood water swamped Mer Rouge, La., scene of famed 1924 Ku Klux Klan-Captain Skipworth trial. Bastrop, La., also scene of Klan sensations, was threatened by advancing waters. The flood also menaced St. Martinsville, La., whither traveled Longfellow's Evangeline, where stands the famed Evangeline Oak...
...Selden, L. I. Chief Fire Ranger Clarence Dare insisted that a fire which raged last week over 6,000 acres of scrub oak and stunted pines, driving before it and suffocating, singeing, roasting a stampede of deer, foxes, rabbits, mice, had all started from a smudge ignited by one Ernest Chenel, 9, to smoke out a skunk...
...lumbia, Ga., to Chicago, "on the last legs of a globe-girdling tour during which he has converted more than 100,000 men and wo men." He will open the three-day golden jubilee of his conversion with a mass meeting at the staid First Congregational Church in Oak Park, Ill., where the Rev. William E. Barton, father of advertising man Bruce Barton, had long been pastor. Gypsy Smith has a son, Gypsy Jr., who is also saving souls...
...What famous English churchman and satirist went mad shortly after he had predicted that he would die at the top first, like an oak...