Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern American Negro" was Frederick Ira Aldridge, the date 1826. Among his Desdemonas: Ellen Tree, whose husband, famed Charles Kean, played Iago. In Europe's capital Actor Aldridge also played other Shalespearean roles (e.g., Lear, Shylock, Macbeth.) He married a Swedish baroness (by whom he had three children), died as he was about to return to America to set the record that had to wait 76 years for Paul Robeson...
...Stanley, famed virus investigator of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, told of a new Russian antiserum that has given the best results yet in preventing influenza. Soviet scientists have found ways to extract iodine cheaply from the foul waters of oilfields, sugar from watermelons, vitamin C from pine-tree needles for hungry Leningrad. Important contributions have been made to molecular physics, optics, electronics...
...Best-sellers No. 1, 2 and 3, respectively: So Little Time, by John P. Marquand; The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith...
Frost, an associate member of Adams House last year, frequently gave readings and led discussions on poetry in House and College gatherings. Last May he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his volume of poems, "A Witness Tree...
...Miller, ex-Scandals star, Hollywood danseuse, grabbed a revolver and blazed away into a tree outside her bedroom window. "I'm sure I didn't hit him, but he dropped off the tree, fell and scrambled," she reported. She said he wore shorts and had been looking in on her, off & on, for two months. "I can't shoot with a revolver," she apologized...