Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington's Birthday in the Square was disturbed by inquires yesterday, but the important question was not "Who chopped down the cherry tree?" but "Who put the bomb on the stair-way in 1286 Massachusetts Avenue...
...more of the sort of bad luck that has dogged new Army ships of late. As Pilot Kelsey suddenly realized that he was falling short, he opened his throttles to drag into the field. Without so much as a cough his left engine died. Plowing her wheels through a tree, the XP-38, with right engine throttled, slammed into the sand bunker of a golf course, came to a stop with her right wing torn off, her props hopelessly snaggled, her fuselage twisted (see cut). A passing motorist helped dazed Ben Kelsey from the wreck. He had been only slightly...
...years Odon von Horvath lived in the shadow of a huge, sinister, apparently dead but always growing tree-the German State. He was born in 1901 in what was then Serbia, where his father served in the Austro-Hungarian embassy. He was educated in Budapest. During his adolescence the German tree trunk burned itself hollow with...
...beautifully-Max Reinhardt took to him, and when he was 27 one of his plays won the Kleist Prize (German counterpart of the Pulitzer Prize for drama)-but later his chestnuts be came .ashes, too. Not that he was perse cuted; he was 100% "Aryan." But he feared the tree, for above its gutted trunk it was sprouting heavy Nazi foliage...
...long after writing this book, Odon von Horvath was walking along the Champs Elysees in Paris. The usual crowd was all around him, straining against a high wind. It was June, and the trees were gay and green with their new foliage-except for one huge, dying chestnut tree. A sudden gust swept against it. It tottered, cracked, started to fall. Von Horvath, preoccupied, did not hear the people scream as he walked into its shadow. The dead tree crushed him dead, and Odon von Horvath had his wish...