Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he took matters into his own hands. While planting some locust trees in his garden he discussed the cannon with a tree surgeon, one Sidney Stearns. Ralph Coghlan said he was "very serious" about wanting those cannon on the scrap pile. Upshot: Arborist Stearns agreed to get a friend and remove the cannon; Editor Coghlan agreed to pay the expenses. Further upshot: when Stearns and. friend tried to uproot the cannon they were arrested. The case was suddenly complicated when police found a loaded revolver, a full can of gasoline and a sixth tire in Stearns...
Stephen Spender's Ruins arid Visions ($2) gave proof that war and writing are by no means necessarily incompatible in a civil ized nation. Other notable volumes were The Witness Tree ($2) by Robert Frost, dean of U.S. poets, and Person, Place, and Thing ($2) by Karl Jay Shapiro...
...Tree in the Trail - Holling Clancy Holling...
...truck swung into the circle in front of the House, and its driver politely asked for "the tree." What tree? "The Christmas tree I'm supposed to take to Agassiz Hall." That was the promise. "Oh, sure, we got a tree, see it all nice out there in the lighted dining hall? An' sure darling, oh, of course we'll give it to you." So the truck driver wanted the tree...
...wasn't primarily Massachusetts Hall, Plympton Street, Professor Frisky and other permanent fixtures; it was rather the people he had met. The big guy peeping out happily from under a pile of papers and cuddling his vodka, the other one getting yanked out of a Quadrangle tree by a bunch of 'Cliffe-dwellers, irreproachable Paul and lovable Georgie. Not to mention the blond visionary and the albuminous adolescent and, least as well as last, the warm stone from Washington Square. And the things he had done; the beer he had drunk in the Sanctum in honor of his ancestors...