Word: pining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scandal. In Bernarr Macfadden's Photoplay appeared an article called Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives, purporting to "expose" the relationships of couples like Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, Virginia Pine and George Raft, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin, Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland. Excerpts: "Barbara freezes homemade ice-cream for Bob from a recipe his mother gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year...
...Coffin is one of these elect, and he not only has absorbed the feeling of countrified, sea-bitten Maine, but he has written poems about it that can carry his sensations to those unlucky wretches who have never seen its shores. In his second collection of Pine Tree verses, entitled "Maine Ballads," he treats almost solely Maine men and women...
Charles Holmes Herty's 1933 proof that newsprint could be made out of Southern slash pine excited Southern publishers: with slash pine growing like weeds in the South, they ought to get their newsprint a lot cheaper than the $42.50 a ton then charged by the Canadian and Northern U. S. manufacturers. (Current price: $48 to $50.) When a Southern lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South...
Elms are predominant in the Yard not because they are more graceful and attractive than other trees, but because they can best withstand the conditions of city life. Undergraduates of Civil War days will remember the grove of pines sheltering "Universities Minor" at the rear of University Hall. Up to this fall there were two pines standing near the site of the original grove; the hurricane claimed one, so that now there is only one pine, one evergreen, in the entire Yard...
...beginning of the present century, the Yard was well filled with all sorts of trees--pines, oaks, ashes, elms, and many others. Around 1910 a destructive invasion of leopard moths began. The situation became serious; all the historic trees and shrubbery were slowly succumbing. The Yard looked very bare in 1914, when a program of replanting and rearranging went into effect. No pine trees can grow any longer in the Yard, because there is too much soot and dirt in the air. During the Great War, the University transplanted many good-sized elms from the countryside around Boston...