Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of their amiable creed 458 female Nazareth Baptists went out, cornered Sampson, tied him with ropes, marched him to a tree-bordered square in Verulam called The Place of Dancing. Chanting and dancing, they hacked Sampson with sticks, hoes, axes, poles, stones. Then they buried what was left of him under a ton of debris...
...living in a two-room apartment on tree-shaded America Avenue in Baton Rouge. Charming, quiet, well-liked, she cooks, sews, collects old records and music, reads medieval documents, and modern poetry. Her slow writing bothers her not at all: "There are too many bad books without me trying to turn out two a year." But she is working on a novel, Promised Lands, wants to write four books, one for each section of the U. S. If they live up to Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the literary colony of Baton Rouge may turn out to be far more durable...
There was a young man who said, "God Must think it exceedingly odd That the Juniper tree Just ceases to be When there's no one about in the quad." Wrote Knox: Dear Sir, it is not at all odd, I am always about in the quad...
Thus the Juniper tree Never ceases to be Since observed by yours faithfully God. This summer Monsignor Knox retires from Oxford to execute a commission given him by England's Roman Catholic bishops: a new translation of the Vulgate (Latin) scriptures...
...grower on a charge of murdering a neighbor, gets him off, but finds his client was guilty and had framed an innocent man. The Association fails, and so does Perse: "The reason for things is gone. . . . Like flood water going down and leaving trash and stuff up in a tree...