Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life until the early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan had been born. When the sun came up Leo Frank's corpse dangled from an oak tree near Prey's gin mill. After it was cut down, a man ground his heel into its pallid face. Said the Marietta Journal: "We regard the hanging of Leo Frank as an act of law abiding citizens." Georgia's condemnation at the time was nationwide...
...money in banks for safe-keeping and then have not been able to get it out. . . . It's just as if I put my car into a garage and when I came to get it out, found that somebody else had borrowed it and run it into a tree...
...wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every pot." WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG-Variety. "The year 1931 will offer rewards for investors"- Roger Babson. "Come to the cross of Jesus Christ"-Billy Sunday. Jimmy Walker stealing an apple off a tree. President Hoover's message to the Republican convention. Smoke from the Bonus army's burning huts hanging like a pall over the Capitol. President Roosevelt on the Capitol steps, prepared to "ask extraordinary powers from the Congress." The New Deal...
Here stood the smithy past which Longfellow walked almost daily on his way between home and Harvard Square. Here, too, towered the "spreading chestnut tree...
...What is the difference between a shrub and a tree...