Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deep in thought, Professor Albert Einstein, who planned to leave the U. S. this week, strolled across the twilit campus of California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. He did not at once understand why the tall palm trees had begun to dance crazily or why the students had begun running out of their dormitories. In Los Angeles, where crowds going home to dinner had complained of the sultry, oppressive atmosphere, electric lights blinked. A newspaperman, looking down on the city, saw the square 28-story tower of the City Hall sway ten feet like a huge tree. Masonry and cornices...
...over two years, since the fall of 1930, the Big tree swimming pool has presented a boarded exterior to the passer-by on Holyoke Street. Once the University's only pool, it is now an idle and dusty monument to the expansion made possible by Harkness millions. Because of its central location it was considered as a site for a new telephone exchange, but the erection of such a building elsewhere has rendered the immediate future of the structure, and the land it stands on, as useless as its immediate past...
Sever all Harvard organizations have recognized the possibilities of converting the Big tree pool to some useful function, but the University has been reluctant to part with so valuable an asset as this trace of land so close to the Yard represents. Lately it has been suggested, however, that the University permit the Harvard Dramatic club the use of the property. The club has never had a theatre of its own. Relying on the good will of the Pt Eta Club and the not too low rentals of Brattle Hall, it has been moving from one stage to another. Funds...
...cross a lake on a raft and a snake-necked brontosaurus dumps them in the water, bites some of them dead. Finally they catch up with Kong. He flicks all except the producer and first mate into a crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate finally rescues Fay Wray while Kong is pulling the wings off a pterodactyl...
...fascinates his friends. When he talks, piling imagination with breath-taking invention, they listen and remember. One of his companions describes him as "overflowing with wit, gaiety, laughter, and Aristophanic joy." It was in Gogarty's garden that George Moore conceived the idea for "Ave, Salve, Vale." An apple tree in Gogarty's garden was the inspiration for Moore's "Tree of Vision." Gogarty himself is the Buck Mulligan in Joyce's "Ulysses...