Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe) the only undergraduate in Harvard University who knows who cut down your tree. The reason for my previous anonymity must be clear to you, for at the disclosure of my name, the guilty parties would be hot upon my trail...
...murder in the first degree", declared Bob Lampoon, the incomparable jester, grand vizier and high lama at all of Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...
...Lampoon's epigrammatist has been growing somewhat reflective of late but now that a new tree, an elm in fact, is going to be planted on the site of his old favorite, he is beginning to show signs of his erstwhile cheerfulness. The famous picalo, laid away in the dust of Lampy's attic for many months, will be played by Bob at the laying of the corner-root. "This ceremony will be the most impressive that has ever been conducted since John Harvard staked out his claim by the banks of the Charles," admitted the Lampoon...
...which has come out of Canada in many a year. The central figure of the story,. Alayne, a participant of a more effete civilization, shares the reader's interest and bewilderment at the gnarled fibrous character of old Adeline, who towers over the book like a huge shadowy tree, leaves stirring in the wind, roots stirring in the tight, tough soil...
...juniper tree was cruciform. Some hours after his prayer, young Bishop Latour found hidden water. Brother Joseph Vaillant, the scrawny but indomitable baker's son with whom Jean Latour stole out of France to make comradely conquests for God in the New World, and who later became bishop of tumbled, rocky Colorado, might have greatly elaborated this miracle, introducing the Virgin in colored robes when he related it. But not Bishop Latour. He was not a visionary ascetic. He wrought humbly with Nature, not beyond...