Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Beech Tree...
...people in the country. . . . The wheels may be creaking, but are you sure the wheels of the coach of state are not creaking in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna? Are you quite cer tain they are not creaking even in the United States? "Dictatorship is like a great beech tree - nice to look at, but nothing grows underneath it. The whole tendency is to squeeze out the competent and independent man and to create a hierarchy of those used to obeying, and when the original dictator goes, chaos is the result. Democracy, it is quite true, has been a failure...
...geographical location. Under Victor McLaglen, top sergeant, the remaining eleven find their way to an oasis. Next morning, the youthful sentry is found knifed, the horses are gone. Two are sent out to bring aid; they are returned dead, strapped to their mounts. A private climbs a palm tree to reconnoitre, and falls with a bullet through his head. And so it goes, until only McLaglen remains...
...field. There was a field but its beacon had not been in use for some time. Townsfolk heard the ship droning in circles overhead. Too late they rushed out to the landing field to turn on the lights. Lieut. Dietz pushed on to Crisfield, where his ship hit a tree and a telephone pole trying to land. The motor was thrown free and so was Lieut. Dietz. His skull was fractured, but he managed to shout: "Don't bother anything in the plane! Take care of the mail...
...ROBBER BARONS-Matthew Josephson- Harcourt, Brace ($3). The roots of any family tree, of any aristocracy, are planted in the dirt. But the humble or scandalous beginnings of an old family, a settled society, are well covered. Not so the great names of U. S. plutocracy, whose mightiest growths are a matter of two or three generations, their naked progress still quite perceptible to the curious eye. And one by one these financial giants have had their share of homage and vituperation. Author Josephson comes neither to bury nor praise them; as observer of U. S. history, he thinks...