Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often-told life story, biographers have enjoyed tracing her flair for the theatrical back to the Lowell, Mass, child who at four snipped off her younger sister Barbara's pretty curls; who at eight hated dolls, romped naked in snowdrifts; who at ten, terribly burned in a Christmas tree blaze, played blind for the exquisite drama of the moment...
Miss Velez, known as "Scoop" and an advocate of four love affairs before marriage, said of her own husband, who crashed the movies as Tarzan, "Although he doesn't do any tree-swinging around the house, he wears the pants in the family, and I'm proud of it. He's my favorite leading...
Still in the same linear method, but with constantly growing understanding of its limits, are the early Dutchmen, Zeeman and van Velde, who introduced the water of canals and the texture of buildings. Much better is Jacob Ruysdael, who brought into etching his mastery of tree forms and fields. Pure landscape, however, in line etching, seems finally attained by Claude Lorrain...
Manager of the Rangers is silver thatched, 54-year-old Lester Patrick. Patrick has been a name known to hockey fame since the early days of the century. Trained on Montreal's corner-lot rinks, where the game was played with tin cans and tree-branches, Lester Patrick went on to star at McGill University.* In 1909, the year after the sport was first professionalized, he became the most publicized player in Canada when he got $3,000 for playing twelve games for the famed Renfrew Millionaires...
Small Julia Hatcher, pupil at Hatcher School, Marked Tree, Ark., raised her hand. Said Julia: "I want to leave the room." Asked teacher: "Why?" Replied Julia: "Because the room is on fire.'' Out marched the children. Down burned the school...