Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the Greenwood Tree...
...Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. It was partly the family connection that made him head of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust. It is not probable that, like the crew of the Walloping Windowblind. Commodore Aldrich will ever be compelled to dine on the bark of the Rug-Bug tree or to traffic with a Chinese junk. A member of 18 clubs and seven directorates, including the board of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he can have contempt for the wildest blow on shore...
...Eden Tree is written in uneven rhymed lines that look jerky on the page but read easily. A parabolic narrative, its language stripped of ornament, it has few memorable lines (one of them: "There are always mornings and only some of them are good") but its cumulative effect is one of honesty, shrewdness, controlled emotion. It is better than most novels, which is more than can be said for most long poems...
When the Phi Beta Kappa Society met this year at Amherst, Phi Beta Kappas heard and applauded Member Bynner's Eden Tree...
...Arietta Game Preserve in northern New York, a keeper tied a clothes line to a black cherry tree. A beaver wanted the tree for a dam, chewed it close to the ground, dragged it as far as the line permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...