Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes and a panic the minstrels scurried off. Squirrels. On the roof of a house in Canandaigua, N. Y., there stood a fat squirrel who looked like "Babe" Ruth. On the limb of an oak tree not far off, stood another. Soon the squirrel on the oak limb picked up an acorn, moistened it as if about to throw a spitball, pirouetted with an acorn clasped in waving paw, then threw a spitball to the squirrel on the roof who caught the pitched nut. Through...
...rolled down into India, over the Himalayas, through the hot, level borders of Persia onto the deck of a Spanish boat, over the blue waving turf of the Mediterranean, through Spain to England. Here, half the world away from China, yokels at twilight gathered on a sward, awninged by oak trees, bordered by oak-beamed cottages, breathed hard and bent over to twirl great wooden spheres-bowls, they called them in England...
WILLIAM ELEAZAR BARTON, 66, Oak Park, Ill.; retired as clergyman, active as writer, father of Bruce Barton, famed advertising agent...
Peter Giles: Eminent philologist; honored Master of Emmanuel College, the oak that grew from Mildmay's acorn, whence Harvard sprang, and in turn a forest of colleges in our land...
...Oak Park...