Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...
Newshawks refrained from further questions to concentrate on the etchings. One showed a chair in the middle of a forest. From a spigot in the side of the chair water poured. A hand grew out of a tree trunk. It was tossing in the air omelets that slid down a nearby board...
...course of a final ineffectual episode, the protagonist...answers with foul insults and returns determinedly to the woman he loves. At this very moment an inexplicable accident separates them forever, and the man is last seen throwing a burning tree out of the window, a large agricultural implement, an archbishop, a giraffe, feathers...
...hunting expedition out of Uvalde, Tex., John Nance Garner shot a deer, became lost, climbed a tree, plunged ten feet into thick brush. Nursing scratches and a sprained knee, he limped into camp 300 yd. away...
...hours behind schedule, in sight of 45,000 spectators including two of the three Piccard children and Henry Ford who had brought 150 moppets in busses to witness the spectacle. When the bag seemed reluctant to rise, airport hands helped by pushing up the gondola. The balloon drifted toward trees fringing the field, seemed certain to crash. Perched in the rigging, Mrs. Piccard frantically threw off lead ballast and the trees were cleared. She climbed inside. The bal loon drifted southeast across Lake Erie, slowly rose to ten miles. Radio communi cation with the ground was fragmentary. Mrs. Piccard worried...