Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that fellow behind the tree...
Last week the House of Representatives, hunting "that fellow behind the tree." took its orders from a tall, lanky North Carolina farmer, bald as a buzzard and a short, chunky New York lawyer with a mop of shiny black hair. The first was Robert Lee Doughton, a Democrat who has served 20 years in the House and is a member of the Ways & Means Committee. The second was Fiorello ("Little Flower") Henry La Guardia, an insurgent Republican in the House since the War. Poles apart on politics and personality they were united last week in a great and vehement opposition...
...second wife. His first died in the tornado of 1917. At Cleveland, Tenn. an infant was snatched from its mother's arms, dropped into a well, drowned. An Alabama farmer hung on a barbed-wire fence while the wind tore him to pieces. A Georgian sailed into a tree with a piece of wood through his arm, hung there helpless all night. One Tom Marcum went out in his yard at Piney Grove, Ala., picked up and returned somebody's receipt book to Northport, 16 miles away. At 4 p. m. the tornado struck the Tuscaloosa Country Club...
...rifle shot from the posse caught him in the leg. The giant reeled, fell, crawled behind a tree and opened fire once more. The posse returned his fusillade. When the echoes died out among the cold hills the lieutenant approached. Behind the tree the great brown figure lay lifeless, his blood melting dark holes in the soft snow. A week after the wild man's first startling appearance, he was sledged back to North Creek, interred with his secret history...
Everyone is familiar with the exterior of Eliot House, the result of the site which was offered for the bewilderment of the architects. Barren of foliage, and with a blank expanse of wall at one end, the court sorely needs the concealing grace of tree and vine. The interior is fortunately a distinct improvement. Most of the rooms are comfortable and large enough; the Common Rooms (there are two) are small but dignified. The Dining Room is too large and elaborate for daily use. It is graced by the Sargent portrait of Eliot, and by the Agassiz Inter-House Crew...