Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer came in litre stone mugs. He would sit by the hour at a table as the lovely women and the little stone mugs came and went listening to an orchestra somewhere in the distance playing "Tales From A Vienna Woods," in such a fashion that "Woodman Spare That Tree" seemed almost a presentable fragment of verse. But in late years the Hapsburgs have fallen, the Vagabond has gotten too old for travel, and Vienna is now a dissected corpse which communist interns try in vain to assemble...
...front yard of the White House President Hoover planted a small elm tree as part of the American Tree Association's program to plant ten million saplings to commemorate George Washington's bicentennial next year. Remarked the President: "Perhaps I should have planted a cherry tree to take the place of the one chopped down by George Washington years...
...bodyguard, Jack Dalton, had stopped him as he was driving a truckload of hard cider along a deserted road fortnight ago. Because he would not tell where the cider (from which apple-jack is made) was going, Truckman Parks said the city hoodlums beat him, tied him to a tree, burned the soles of his feet with matches...
...course of removing the old fence, an old ash tree had to be chopped down, four men taking eight hours to saw through the tree. It was found to be 300 years old by actual count of the seasonal rings...
There are, of course, small matters which would benefit by improvement. For example there is Miss Viola Tree who overacts the part of a gawky noble woman until it literally hurts. She is, to be sure, egged on by the loud guffaws of a disconcertingly large proportion of the audience, and so perhaps after all she is only giving her public what it demands. We just can't be reckoned as part of her public. But the point is a relatively minor one, and Miss Tree excellent work of so many others...