Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arts and sciences by a bossy grandmother (May Robson), to fit him for the Wicks fame & fortune. His planned life gets out of hand when Mona Carter (Joan Blondell) crashes her car through the Wickstead fence, discovers the perfect specimen testing a Newtonian theory by falling out of a tree. With very little urging, Gerald reacts like a perfectly normal and admirably coordinated human. He pursues Mona, impresses her by flattening a tough guy (Allen Jenkins), wins another bout at a truck drivers' picnic, goes to work as a mechanic, conducts a merry courtship while Grandma Wicks...
...Morristown, N. J., Mrs. Walter E. Wilke drove her car into a tree. She backed off, drove on. A policeman noticed the car weaving, leaped on the running board, pulled the emergency brake, hospitalized Mrs. Wilke who complained of a pain in her neck. Shortly, Mrs. Wilke died of her broken neck...
...publishing his own selection of his poems Author Tate places his latest works first. Readers who reverse that order will find his book more readily comprehensible, will find that few books better illustrate the professional literate's magpie-like stealing of twigs off literature's genealogical tree, his pupa-like spinning, out of a bowel-deep terror of extinction, pessimism's tight and tolerably comfortable cocoon. Irritating to some ears will be Author Tate's attempts, in many of his poems, to catch the tone of T. S. Eliot's latter-day concord of sourness...
Would-be thespians will have a chance to discover whether or not they possess any talent at the tryouts for the Beaver Country Day School fall play, which will be held today and tomorrow from 4 to 6 o'clock at the Big Tree Swimming Pool. Unfortunately the trials are limited to Freshman actors...
...vegetation of west central Texas agrees with the Angora goats who grow the best quality mohair and every bush and tree is nibbled clean as high as goat can reach. A huge fortune from Texas mohair was made by Charles Schreiner, a French immigrant who started as a merchant, turned to banking, prospered as a goat rancher when a 34? a Ib. tariff began keeping out Turkish and South African mohair. At one time he owned a goat ranch twice as large as Rhode Island. At his death a few years ago, Louis Schreiner -known to Texas goat herders...