Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 24 years with the Saturday Evening Post, Herbert Johnson displays a belief in the righteousness of U. S. Business and the Republican Party as unwavering as the lines of his workmanlike cartoons. Once he pictured "Government in Business" as a banyan tree whose roots curled out to strangle honest enterprise. He liked the idea, improved on it in a second cartoon by turning the banyan tree into an octopus named "New Deal...
Almost nothing may be legally thrown into the street, ice, hair, mud: you can't even beat a carpet there, or tie a horse to a tree...
Today at 4:30 o'clock all men interested in dramatics will be welcomed at an open house meeting of the Dramatic Club at the Big Tree Swimming Pool, next to the Hygiene Office...
...Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta Dolore Nocet.* Because of the retreat of many...
...Well, I've said enough; but, in pure Australian slang I'll sum up by saying, 'the studies stoushed Amherst, chased the Bruins up a gum tree, and showed that they had the dinkum oil by playing dinki-di football.' Translating this into the King's English (or--in this country of alphabetical politics--into FDR English) this means that the Harvard squad won two victories by playing good football. Now for the Army...