Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis is a Moose, Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine and the Grotto, Knight of Pythias, Odd Fellow, Elk, Eagle, Forester, and a member of "many other fraternal orders." He also belongs to Chevy Chase, National Press, Congressional Country and Burning Tree clubs in Washington, and to the Americus Republican, Dequesne and Atlantic clubs of Pittsburgh...
...sister was born little Willie was tethered to a tree along with a calf, and there was a pail of milk close at hand, for which they both struggled, and into which he tumbled and was nearly drowned." Thus Mrs. Edith Gittings Reid, wife of Harry Fielding Reid, Johns Hopkins professor of dynamic geology & geography, begins The Great Physician: A Life of Sir William Osler, published last fortnight.- Her book is briefer (293 pp.) than Harvey Williams Cushing's two-volume year-by-year life (1,413 pp.). Yet she gives a full picture of "the greatest physician...
...EDEN TREE-Witter Bynner-Knopf ($2.50). In the U.S. a poet's lot is not a happy one. Exception: Edgar Albert Guest, whom most of his fellow poets do not regard as a poet at all. Typical modern U.S. poetry does not sell for a good reason: misnamed "lyric," it is actually introspective, exhibitionist, an effort on the poet's part to escape from intellectual nightmare. Witter Bynner's poetic cosmos is top-heavy with intellect but more objective than most; he does not get hysterical about it. His poems are not great but they are masculine...
...They shot him as he ran. ¶Three days later at Hayneville, Ala., Lynching No. 5 took place. A Negro boy was said to have frightened an 11-year-old white girl. A crowd took him out of town, tied him to a tree with a rope and dog chain, shot him 32 times, twice for every year he had lived...
...Paris by his doctors to avoid a nervous breakdown. France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand found quiet refuge at his farm near Cocherel, Normandy. There on a small platform built over a branch of the Eure River. Brer Briand stays the day long in the shade of a tree, angling for perch and pike...