Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago store (Peacock) and at a Los Angeles store (Barker Bros.). It was a three-wheeled barrow, of tea-wagon appearance, containing lock compartments for liquor, an ice receptacle, niches for bottles, glasses, ice-picks, opener, knives, spoons; a cedar drawer for 500 cigars; a tray; an oak board for slicing fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine-the "Baker Bar-ette"-is usually made with a red-lacquer finish. Some are equipped with the heads & tails of animals (cock, horse, dog) sticking out at either end, to support the leaves which, when folded, cover...
...were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie' in it, even if Alfred Tennyson did write it." I fondly thought that Campbell's "Battle of the Baltic" would appeal to him, for it contained the phrase "Heart of Oak," which was the name of his "Books"; but no! "That was bad business for England to be in, and I won't have...
...also known as half a dollar)-all these, though now in circulation, will bear new designs. The three-penny and sixpenny coins, respectively a little smaller and a little larger than a U. S. dime, will lose the crown on the reverse side and gain a confusion of acorns, oak branches & oak twigs; the obverse side will retain the King's head. The larger coins will also retain the head on the obverse sides but the half-crown will lose its royal coat of arms and the motto, Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense (Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks...
...suitable Washington Eim memorial. To this bill he has just added the suggestion that the memorial include a replica of the tree as it appeared a few years before its removal, a replica to be similar to work done by Dionecio Rodriquez of Mexico City, who has reproduced oak and cedar trees in cement for the park departments of Houston and San Antonio, Texas...
Until last week, the one piece of presidential timber actually blazed by the Democrats was New York State's widespreading Irish oak, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith. But when a Democratic State Committee finished its business in Missouri, Tuesday night, it had placed its mark on Missouri's tough-fibred, silver-topped sycamore, U. S. Senator James A. Reed...