Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tree Soldiers...
...oranges were choice Valencias, tree-ripened to ruddy perfection. Ordinarily they would have spoiled during water transit without refrigeration. But shippers were not deliberately throwing away 7,500 cases aboard the uniced Dorothy Luckenbach: their ripe oranges were completely protected and preserved by a thin film of paraffin...
...give him a half credit for an A.B. The Vagabond is a large man and impatient of all these peccadilloes. His spirit rides a swift charger and he would be off somewhere in the country, dawdling in some old pasture, climbing a hill, or floating down some tree-lined river in a canoe. Learning is sensitive and must be wood in quiet places, not commardeered by signing one's name six times. In the country thoughts come rythmically, easily, and smoking an old pipe is like a forgotten pleasure suddenly discovered...
...answer to G. F. Baker's letter in June 26 issue, the "socalled Tree Soldier'' does not get his tobacco, laundry, chewing gum and shows free. Mr. Baker should be around here sometime and see how the laundry is done "free," with every man draped over a wash tub and wash board...
...that ditty buried. It obscured the value of the pungent wit and humor which poured in a continual and effortless stream from his typewriter into the pages of the Spokane Spokesman-Review and into his books. These books-collections of fine humorous verse, What the Queen Said, The Raspberry Tree and others-must and will pass into future collections of Americana as characteristic of this age. We who knew King, however slightly, feel it would be ignoble in his death to permit his memory to be only as long as only as long as "The Long, Long Trail...