Word: tree
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree and Somewhere in Old Wyoming (Brunswick)?The first (by Dick Robertson, a male quartet and a jews' harp) should become a barber-shop classic...
...Gobi. Begun last month was another of Roy Chapman Andrews' perennial excursions into the dismal wastes of Gobi Desert. Prime object of the expedition: to find traces of some twigs from the family tree of the "Peking Man." world's earliest human discovered comparatively recently near Peking by Pei Wen-chung, Chinese archeologist...
Unfortunately the climax of our congratulations involves "Pink and White" whose family tree was so meticulously portrayed to the great melting pot. Only when a new-world brew settles into layers does it become interested in those of Ale and Stout. It then seems to limit its interest to the foam on the top. TIME therefore felt justified, or at least prudent, in devoting so much space to the Ancestry of "Pink and White...
...Sing Sing prison John Santanella, a trusty, had only 55 more days to serve on his sentence. Yet he fled. Philip A. Brown, who wants to become a policeman, found him roosting in a tree, bayed until guards arrived, who took John Santanella back to prison, where he risks spending seven to 15 years more for his defection...
Last week at Honey Grove, 50 mi. east of Sherman, mobbers helped a posse find and shoot to death one George Johnson. 30, Negro murderer of a white man, to whom he had owed money. The mobbers dragged Johnson's body about town, strung it from a tree, doused it in gasoline, burned it as a warning in the Negro quarter...