Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of the Study will again this year center at 13 Holyoke Street, once the Big Tree Swimming Pool, which has been enlarged over the summer by the addition of three now offices. William L. Woods and Thomas H. Wright will continue the psychiatric work done last year by Donald W. Hastings, who has left for an important post at the University of Pennsylvania...
...France, excellent directors must be growing on every pomegranate tree or lurking in every ash-can. This time it is Marcel Carne who has sent over a directorial masterpiece in "Port of Shadows." Casual movie-goers, who are frequently puzzled as to what a director does besides sit in a canvas chair, could well study this picture and see how direction can make a film great...
...realism of the elder Breughel, sixteenth century Flemish master. In Breughel's work, we see the underlying and basic connection of man with nature. His men and women are integral parts of the landscape; humanity is just as deeply rooted in the earth as a massive rock or a tree. Fiene speaks much in the same manner. His men are on a par with the countryside which they inhabit. But his is a new kind of landscape, one bristling with cranes and pulleys, a valley of machines whose wheels seem as if they might revolve for all eternity...
Many evacuated children had never before seen a hen, a pig or an apple tree. But they needed scant introduction, soon learned to shinny up apple trees and drop the fruit into caps held by their sisters. Wherever they went-apple-picking, blackberrying or fishing-most of the children still dutifully carried their gas masks...
When Odon von Horvath was killed in Paris last year-a falling chestnut tree struck him as he sauntered along the Champs Elysees-he had written a prize play, two short novels, The Age of the Fish and A Child of Our Time. These had given him a European reputation as one of the most gifted German writers of his generation. That reputation was confirmed by most U. S. critics last February with the English translation of The Age of the Fish, a poetic, Dostoevskian Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in which a young German schoolmaster discovers the maggots in Nazi morality...