Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roanoke, Va., Jesse T. Meadows scrambled up a small tree to shoot a squirrel. On a smooth limb he slipped, fell out of the tree, flung his wrist against the blade of an ax, which sliced off his hand, discharged his gun, which blew off his foot...
...Coffee Pot cook produced a study of morning sunlight filtering through a great tree in Central Park which a metropolitan art dealer snapped up. The ex-broker found peace in sculpture, modeled a striking bust of a jut-jawed, middle-aged tycoon. The secretary painted a smiling portrait of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on an old piece of bristol board. It has been purchased for the White House. The high-school boy drew automobiles. It got him a job as sports cartoonist on a Manhattan newspaper. The cripple turned out some slashing caricatures of the Four Marx Brothers which Warner Bros...
...husband. Commander Ellis S. Stone, to the West Indies, Europe, China, is now stationed with him in Washington, D.C. Shapely, sprightly, a crackling talker, she has produced, besides a daughter, five books by the way (others: Letters to a Djinn, The Heaven and Earth of Dona Elena, The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General...
Nura got the idea for her story from a reminiscence of her childhood in Kansas City. So fond was her older and only sister of buttermilk that her parents used to say: "We'll have to grow a buttermilk tree for you." Nura patiently waited for the tree, was told when she asked that they grew only on wishing rings...
Nura's evanescent, occasionally rhymed tale traces the history of a grave, unearthly, mild-mannered girl from birth beneath a Buttermilk Tree to motherhood. More interesting to most readers will be Nura's black and white pictures which achieve charm by combining a simple mysticism with an awareness of actuality. Animals, playthings, schoolbooks surround the solemn child as she grows up. At 15 she stares into space, a mirror on her lap. She emerges into starry light, the world at her feet, on her bridal night. "Full Bloom" shows her, arms outstretched in the shape of a cross...