Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hasten the redemption of mankind, and the scholar Origen maintained that the betrayer hanged himself to seek Christ's forgiveness as soon as possible in the next world. And somehow there crept into Judas-lore a famed, odd detail: that Judas hanged himself upon a flowering tree whose blossoms turned red in shame. The Judas or redbud tree flourishes in the South of the U. S., and last week it made news in Oklahoma...
...behest of Oklahoma clubwomen, the State Legislature passed a bill declaring the redbud the State's official tree. One clubwoman, however, believed that the tree on which Judas hanged himself was no tree for Oklahoma. She, Mrs. Roberta Lawson of Tulsa, first vice president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, so telegraphed last week to Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland, who had not signed the bill...
...spirit of Humor is not entirely dead in the Yard. One daring fellow last evening placed his pal's derby on the pavement and full of evil glee hid himself behind a tree. Soon a nice, bespectacled, becaned, bespatted gentleman came along, picked up the hat and returned to the prankster who showed the polite gratitude the occasion deserved. Having replaced the headgear, the daring fellow turned to light a cigarette. On looking again a moment later the hat had disappeared. And that ended that for another year...
...Wantagh, N. Y., jobless Painter Louis Seltman escaped injury when a falling Army weather observation plane, abandoned by its pilot, crashed into his house. Next month a dead limb from a tree fell on Louis Seltman's head, killed...
...years, tell me of his soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...