Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paraguay wants the Chaco because the district is larger than the rest of their country and its jungles contain great growths of the quebracho tree, whose bark yields 30% tannin...
...there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night. At the performance at the Tabor Grand, "Three-Fingered" Hoover ("ez fine a man wuz he ez ever caused an inquest or blossomed on a tree!") rescued "Cameel" from "Armo," just the way the hardy mountaineers stop the show in Showboat. He told...
...town is the business, hotel and amusement centre of modern Denver. South and east of the Civic Centre spreads the large, calm residential section, its wide tree-lined avenues running sedately north and south, its citizens moving soberly along them on Sunday mornings to Denver's many churches. Like most second-generation frontier towns, Denver is strongly moral. It has a stern respect for conventional art, religion, home, womanhood. When Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, after brilliant service in the Juvenile Court, declared that scarcely 10% of Denver's high-school girls were virgins and campaigned nationally for Companionate Marriage, Denver...
Prelude to Washington's bloody battle was a third march toward the White House by some 200 Reds, led by Communist John Pace, Michigan contractor. It was a routine performance which the police efficiently squelched with much pate-thwacking and nine arrests. One veteran climbed a tree, kept shouting "We want our Bonus!" until police dragged him down, gagged him. This radical demonstration, outlawed by the regular B. E. F. was important only in that it gave Administration officials the idea of blaming Communists for all that followed...
...masks, pushed slowly on while the heavy grey fumes cut great gaps in the retreating throng of veterans. Citizen spectators tangled with the soldiers, were ordered to "get the hell out of the way." The Government buildings were methodically gassed. A huge Negro sat in a crotch of a tree, waving a U. S. flag and sonorously chanting: "God that gave us this h'yar country...