Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urgings of many a citizen, the mob disarmed the sheriff, bundled Willie Kirkland into a truck, took him to Magnolia Gardens (where Sportsman Harry Payne Whitney has a shooting preserve, where the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna had his winter home). There they hanged him from an oak tree-16th lynching in the U. S. this year, Georgia's second in the fortnight. After shooting at the suspended body, the mob cut it down, tied it to the truck, dragged it to and around the Thomasville square while a morbid crowd looked...
...about the Yard, which is grievously changed these days. I find, after careful research that tomorrow there will appear at Sever 11 at 2 o'clock Mr. Harry Irvine the actor. He will talk on an undetermined subject. He has played, in the past with my old friend Herbert Tree and with Forbes Robertson, known to me by reputation only. I recommend him to my disciples. He has many pungent reminiscences worth the hearing...
...with a 69 (one under par). "This cane," bellowed Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley on Boston Day last week, in a voice audible for blocks along Boston's Tremont Street, "is one of three known as Constitutional Big Sticks. Three canes were cut from an elm tree which grew on the spot [battlefield of Lexington, Mass.] where the movement for the establishment of American liberty had its inception. These canes are given to the.- three foremost defenders and upholders of liberty and the Constitution in America: William Randolph Hearst, William Green, president of the American Federation...
...Cuero, Tex., S. J. Parker went to look for a cow which had been missing three days. He said he found her stuck in a leaning tree which she had climbed for leaves...
...spacious are of a bow window. The House Master's residence at Dunster fronts the river. In Lowell House the Master is not so lucky, but the architects have consoled him most successfully with a brick-walled garden close, its lawn shaded by two elms and a buckeye tree, and descended to by a short flight of iron-railed stond steps from French windows opening out of the living room and dining room bays. Even in its present unflowered-gardened state the place is a stage setting ready for the actors to come on and speak their lines. These lines...