Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other suggestions for industrial crops: japan wax and lacquer from the poison oak of southern swamplands; sugar and byproducts from the neglected southwestern maple tree; storax for perfumes and flavors from the sweet gum tree; yellow dyes from the Osage orange or hedge apple...
...casket, in the front room of Ade's rustic nine-room house. They saw his study, piled high with curios-including a life-sized cardboard figure of his friend, Will Rogers, which had once stood in front of a theatre. The neighbors strolled out past the hickory tree where James Whitcomb Riley used to sit. They sat on folding chairs on the grass to hear funeral speeches. Many had been there before as neighborhood kids, invited to Mr. Ade's 430-acre place for picnics. It was 90 in the sun now. Drawled one old neighbor: "George always...
Betty Smith, author of the best-seller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and her publishers, Harper & Brothers, had a quarter-million dollar libel suit grafted on them by Miss Smith's cousin, Mrs. Sadie Grandner of Brooklyn. Perilously perched on the legal limb was a character in the novel, one Aunt Sissie, who once worked in a rubber factory, had eight stillborn children, called all three of her husbands John. "Public scandal, infamy, and disgrace," claimed 60-year-old Cousin Sadie, who has been called Sissie for some 50 years, once worked in a rubber factory, had four shortlived...
...wiry Captain can infuse some of his own warm personality into stories about the Princess, his success should be assured. He can literally charm a bird out of a tree. Near his country home sparrows and blue-tits used to fly out to meet him (but not, he swears, in formation). In London, his whistled bird calls are enough to lure a tough, sophisticated, citified St. James's Park bird into his hand...
...Thou preparest a table before me in. ... 5) The heavens declare the glory of God: and. ... 6) Consider the lilies of the field. ... 7) Suffer the little children. ... 8) Blessed are the pure in heart: for. ... 9) Ask, and it shall. . . . 10) Every tree which bringeth not. . . . 11 ) For what shall it profit a man, if. . . . 12) When thou doest alms, let not thy left. ... 13) Let your light so shine before men, that. ... 14) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where. . . . 15) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three...