Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Columnist Raymond Clapper from North Africa: "The biggest thing in [the pilots'] lives ... is an American Red Cross girl under an olive tree serving coffee and doughnuts. Only after the second cup of coffee and the third doughnut do you begin to hear about what happened over Sicily a few minutes...
What Bill Bullitt would do among Philadelphia political muggs, how he would grapple with the sewer problem, the noisome water-such topics were much mooted by Philadelphians last week. For Bullitt is a patrician and a reformer. His family tree is ornamented by the father of George Washington, the sister of Patrick Henry, Pocahontas herself. His greatgrandfather and grandfather are civic statues...
...TIME, June 21, you have a short account of the African Kenya bird, locally called weaver bird [which builds its nest vertically instead of horizontally]. I enclose a photo of a tree full of weaver birds' nests. The photo was taken in Urundi...
...Your Heads (British Ministry of Information; OWI). Because a champion German-Jewish boxer picked up a small bird and put it in his wheelbarrow in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, his hands were tied behind his back and he was then strung up by the hands from a tree. The story of his torture, told haltingly by the boxer himself, plus shots of exactly how the Nazis went about it, are memorable moments in this short, sober British documentary. It shows how the British are helping Austrian and German antiFascists get back at Hitler...
...gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality when it swipes the idea of Charles Addams' famous and unsettling New Yorker cartoon which showed what was apparently one man's ski tracks passing a tree on both sides...