Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacking force coming out of the steamy jungle. He jerked off the telephone receiver, screamed "Help! Help!" to the operator at Wawa Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into a river, peppered him to death with shots. Back in the logging camp they woke up Ripley Davis, planter, to murder...
...Tenn., Negro George Smith was jailed last week. He was first reported to have beaten an aged white man, later to have attempted to attack a white girl. A mob of several hundred broke into the county jail, hanged George Smith, lynchee No. 3 for the year, from a tree on the courthouse lawn. Clad in the uniform of the bottling plant for which he worked, George Smith hung in the tree all afternoon while a crowd chanted: "There'll be a bonfire in the old town to-night...
...name of Maj.-General George Owen Squier, retired chief signal officer of the U. S. Army, stood out from the list of exhibitors. In his baggage of accomplishments are these devices depending upon abstruse physics: the sine wave systems of telegraphy, multiplex telegraphy and telephony, tree telegraphy and telephony, broadcasting over power and telephone lines by radio frequency currents (wired radio). General Squier's exhibit at Chicago was an unexpected non sequitur to his previous work. It was a woman's powder compact, rigged with a strap for wrist wear. A tiny handle pulled out a small drawer...
According to cables from Japan, His Majesty highly praised the cherry tree grove of His Imperial Majesty, then gracefully introduced a less weighty topic, saying: "Have you a golf course...
Somebody in Cincinnati last week caught a dog which he evidently hated. Procuring a length of wire, he took the dog to a secluded section, wound the wire around the dog's muzzle to prevent outcry, strung up the creature by neck and forelegs from a tree-limb. Then he built a bonfire under the writhing, whimpering animal and went away. When police found the charred result, they indignantly started searching for Somebody...