Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing there was the babassu, bassoba, baguassu, aguassu, uauassu or guaguassu, a palm tree that grows in Brazil. From the outcries of the Dairy Union and National Co-operative Milk Producers Federation, the New York dairyman had learned to deplore the babassu, its hefty nuts, the childlike Brazilians who skilfully crack them with axes, the oil pressed from their kernels which is not only an ideal fuel for Diesel engines but also a cheap base for oleomargarine...
...jailed for indecency. Same year Attorney Spencer was herself haled into court to explain why she had never sent her two daughters to school. Daughters Victoria, now 14, and Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without suppressions or inhibitions; they threw their Christmas tree out the window without a word of parental rebuke; they learned life from the transcripts of testimony in Chicago criminal courts; they won beauty contests, rode like Amazons, behaved as they pleased. Since then the Misses Spencer, whose news value is not lessened by the fact that they...
...Near Hyderabad, a palm tree followed Hindu prayer ritual, bowed to the ground every day at noon & sunset...
...bursts of rifle and machine-gun fire, replying to the Radical Government besiegers, seem to have aroused the deepest hatred of the Red elements. ... As we passed the Archbishop's Palace one of my Militia escorts remarked, 'I'd like to hang the Archbishop to a tree!'. . . The rebels are said to have taken 60 horses with them into the Alcazar and their only food now is horseflesh, potatoes and wheat." Into the Alcazar in 1907 as a 14-year-old cadet went Generalissimo Franco to study in its Infantry School...
...death, and stayed there for 40 years; his sister left the house only at nightfall; the family meals were left outside the door of each member's room. There Hawthorne was writing stories that grew "as mushrooms grow in a meadow, where the roots of some old tree are buried under the earth." When they won him the attention of the wealthy Peabody family, he was so unused to human companionship that he entered their drawing room "pale and stricken," picked up a knickknack from the table to soothe his agitation but found that his hand was trembling...