Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernard Baruch at Hobcaw Barony in South Carolina. He created 3 sensation in Scotland by the bag he brought down the first time in his life he went out for grouse. And when he walks into his Washington office and hangs his panama and stick on the hat tree (between a stuffed eagle and an untitled seascape by a PWArtist) he is an important figure in the nation's affairs...
...Italian soldiers and workers have been sent down to a steaming sun-baked port where there is hardly a tree, and water is lacking. Many of them came down without sun helmets and still dressed in their heavy European uniforms. All night long these soldiers and workers toil at discharging vessels that jam the harbor. The Italians have learned, at last, to avoid such a task as unloading ships in the day time...
...sylvan visions of Chemist Herty & friends, Union Bag's new Savannah plant is hardly a symbol. Their piney economy turns on newsprint, which devours a forest for every tree that is used in kraft paper. With a capacity of 120 tons of paper per day, the bag plant will mash up only 70,000 cords of wood annually...
...only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly on maize and mandioca bread, exporting yerba maté tea, tinned meat and tannin from the Gran Chaco's quebracho tree...
...Emanuel Morgan was a genius or a fraud. In Guest Book Author Bynner again reveals his keen eye for literary and other pretensions, his delight in exposing them with wit and a minimum of malice. Less frankly humorous than his verse play, Cake, less grave than his contemplative Eden Tree, Guest Book nevertheless contains several sprightly amusing poems, several that strike a deep note of sadness and concern. Hospitable and urbane, Author Bynner has among his 70 guests a Communist and a patriot, a liar, a painter, a hostess, a debutante, a bachelor, maintains the same good manners, the same...