Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When John and his twin sister, Ella, were six, their mother marched them a mile and a half across the fields to the redbrick, one-room McKendree School. At 14, he and his sister drove in a horse & buggy to the modest high school in pleasant, tree-lined little Mt. Sterling. They took lunch from home, ate it in the buggy on good days, in Ed Snyder's furniture store on bad days...
John Bricker qualifies under Rule 5: as Governor he has been a success. By contrast with his predecessor, Tree Surgeon Martin Davey, he has been spectacularly able. Natty, spatty Martin Davey left Ohio nearly bankrupt, with a $40,000,000 deficit and payrolls loaded with spoilsmen...
...landscapes of a single lone ombú tree, with zinc-white rinsings of the moon, his gaucho dances at dusk in orange groves or tiled patios, his dames of the epoch of Rosas gossiping in red dresses on crimson sofas in scarlet damask rooms, his nocturnes of the old market or the environs of Malvin, his two wonderful paintings of the murder of Facundo Quiroga on the diligence, and above all the strange series of Negro customs, candombe dancers, wakes, the mongrels chasing the funerals on foot, the parades and festivals are an inexhaustible pageant of a rich past...
...Liberator bomber came over, flying tree high. "We ran and got the biggest mirror in camp," said Bordner. "It was about six inches square. We flashed it for all we were worth. By the grace of God, somebody...
...roared angrily across and up the opposite slope and came to a halt under a palm tree. Peter jumped out of the carrier and an officer from another carrier that had followed behind us ran up and said, "Peter, do you think we ought to be here...