Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankrupt Midwest farmers who with great fanfare were sent by the New Deal last year to get a new start in Southern Alaska's Matanuska Valley (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.). On a set devised by Donald Oenslager which has a huge, improbable limb of some coniferous tree hanging from the proscenium, hopeful men, women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications...
Students apparently respect classrooms and the feelings of instructors as a rule, for Sever's tiled ground floor is liberally bedaubed each day with wads discarded upon entrance. Chicle gum is dried balata juice, which comes from the South American Sapodilla tree, and College caretakers are unanimous in consigning the stuff to perdition...
...Ireland, Shakespeare, until they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being put upon lecture platforms especially to pummel each other "like two knockabout comedians." Their social relations were less permanent. When Maurice Baring gave a great birthday party (at which eggs were boiled in Sir Herbert Tree's silk hat and Chesterton fenced with real swords with a gentleman "fortunately" more intoxicated than himself), Shaw left the drunken company "like a 17th Century Puritan leaving a tavern full of Cavaliers." Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare, Chesterton records the story of the great Critic...
...newborn koala is beetle-sized. It lives in its mother's pouch for eight months, clings to her back for some months thereafter (see cut). A full-grown koala is some 2 ft. long, weighs about 12 lb. It spends its life in the branches of eucalyptus trees, eats only eucalyptus leaves and of these only twelve varieties. A koala fed leaves from any other of Australia's some 400 varieties of eucalyptus tree will die. The koala drinks nothing, tries to chew if given liquid. A few koalas have been imported by U. S. and European zoos...
...picked up off the city dump as the culmination of a scavenger hunt, is the vent to all her immoderate enthusiasm. When the butler's room is about to be searched for missing pearls, she tears through the house like a four-year-old looking for the Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower. But, there being no intention to slight that genius of suavity, William...