Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alice sat with her back propped against the cool trunk of the peach-tree. The strong April sun broke its way through the leaves and made spots on her shining white apron. It was very hot, and Alice's head began to hurt her the way it did when she stayed shut up too long at school. Lifting a small cloth-covered book from her lap, Alice turned over, and lay on her stomach, dangling her feet above...
...Queen, looking very sour for such a sunny spring morning, came trundling across the lawn and stopped under the peach-tree, scowling down at Alice. She looked at the little green book in the grass and snorted, "Child, what trash are you reading...
...over to Alice, putting her large cold hand on Alice's burning forehead. Then, without a word, she grasped Alice's hand and dragged her back across the lawn behind her. Two flies were meanwhile buzzing past each other on the little book Alice had left under the peach-tree. This evening at 8 o'clock the Vagabond will make his way to the New Lecture Hall to hear the talk of Mr. Norman Thomas, America's perennial Socialist candidate for President...
...publicising its presentation this year, the Classical Club is serving a double purpose with particular fitness. It celebrates three hundred years of academic effort and achievement, and it also points a compelling finger at a vigorous previous flower on the tree of drama when apparently a new bud is struggling to open its petals. Several original undergraduate plays have been produced at Harvard this year, the New York Dramatic Critic's Circle is formed, creating an intelligent board to hand laurels to dramatic artists for the first time in America, and the Harvard Classical Club revives Plautus' Mostellaria; there...
...Governor Allred Convict Baker explained his nickname: "Wal, Guv'nor, when I first landed in de pen, I was chopping wood one day when we cut down an oak tree and a big limb hit me in de head. Dat limb broke, but I went right on workin'. So de boys call me Ironhead...