Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong minded, Mr. Hill personally supervises many branches of his business, even to passing upon the program of the Lucky Strike radio orchestra. His other hobbies include horses, paintings, oriental rugs. Many of the paintings and rugs were destroyed early this year when Percival Hill, 6, shortcircuited the Christmas tree's wiring, set fire to the Hills' White Plains home, of which only the walls were left standing...
...When told to kiss the plump cheek of a grown-up female relative, he bit it. His mother's death, when he was 5, plunged him into despair and atheism. His only childhood friend was his grandfather's valet, who was killed by falling from a mulberry tree. At school Henri won a prize at mathematics, and at 16 was allowed to go to Paris, ostensibly to enter L'Ecole Polytechnique, really "with the firm intention of becoming a seducer of women." He did neither; in 1800 his cousin Pierre Daru got him a clerk...
...secret of the Attorney General's youth, of his ample energy, is his vigorous outdoor life. He is the Cabinet's best golfer. It is a bad day for him when he does not shoot an 85 at the Burning Tree Club, Washington's hardest course. He goes duck hunting along the Potomac in the fall, spends his summers at White Bear Lake, Minn., where he fishes, sails, shoots. His hobbies: amateur cinematography, driving his Packard...
Louis Bromfield, novelist (The Green Bay Tree, Pulitzer Prize-winning Early Autumn), with his wife, two children, maid and a visiting Englishman, went to California to write for the audible cinema. Said he: "There is intelligence and talent gathering in Hollywood as it never gathered there before. It is most hopeful, most interesting. . . . I am fed up with Europe. It gives me a stomachache. I got tired of it, bored with...