Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard University Archives, gives an amusing account of the chain of Saltonstalls that have periodically lent their name to the directory of Students of Harvard. "Our Harvard Saltonstalls," he calls them. In fact at the World's Columbian Exposition one of the Harvard exhibits was the Saltonstall family tree...
Hitler-"Ah, my friend, if you had seen me at Berchtesgaden. I took him by the lapels. I shook him like a plum tree. I spoke coldly of destroying London and Paris...
...lost his religious faith a few years later, while foraging in a cherry tree, but found Grace again in the works of Ruskin, Carlyle, Emerson, Matthew Arnold, Walt Whitman (who often visited the Smiths) and Philosopher William James, also a friend of the family. At 23 Logan wangled a lump inheritance, went to Oxford. He never went back to the U. S., except for visits...
...William Case, 84, of Strongsville, Ohio was called "Santa Claus" for his long white beard, his practice of giving nickels to children at Christmas, and for the groves of Christmas trees he had planted and tended on his farm since boyhood. Each year he sent one of his tallest and best trees to decorate Cleveland's public square. This month The American Magazine wrote him up as an interesting American. Fame brought the world to William Case's evergreen groves: people who came at night and stole his trees by the truckload. One night last week he heard...
...unreliable. An Austrian-American, instructor at Yale, Frederic Prokosch has written two novels (The Asiatics, The Seven Who Fled) which tickled occidental yogi-men. An able verbal fakir, Prokosch, by playing solemn tricks with the sounds of words, makes his poems bloom like a fakir's mango tree...