Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panic's Start. Before Joyce Spector reached the cloakroom, the Cocoanut Grove was a screaming shambles. The fire quickly ate away the palm tree, raced along silk draperies, was sucked upstairs through the stairway, leaped along ceiling and wall. The silk hangings, turned to balloons of flame, fell on table and floor...
Comparative religion, heretofore reserved for grownups, was last week finally dished up for children too. The Tree of Life (edited by Ruth Smith, Viking, $3.50) gives young folks the frequently hard-to-digest riches of 13 theologies, shows how the religious tree from primitive acorns grew and how its living & dead branches intertwine...
...this 457-page forest of quotations, no child's eye will readily find the Tree. To follow even the simple counterpoint the book makes on the theme of the world's creation would take a well-annotated score. From the Norse "Erst was the age when nothing was; Nor sand nor sea" the creation melody runs through the Egyptian "Heaven had not come into being, the earth had not come into being," comes finally to Genesis: "The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Editor Smith apparently believes repetition...
...hasn't Mildred recorded of late? Blame it on her integrity. She'd signed a contract with Decca largely on the strength of her two best-selling Gems of Jazz reissues, made years before for English Parlophone. She'd sung four perennial jazz numbers: "Willow Tree," "Honey-suckle Rose," "Squeeze Me," and "Downhearted Blues." Only Decca now wanted her to sing the latest. Mildred as usual wanted to make her own choices. In an up-and-coming singer it might be foolishness, but in an artist who has been on top for over ten years, who has developed...
Sawney was responsible for the school's famed, eccentric rules: no boy might climb a fence on the grounds unless he built a stile over it (there were stiles every 20 feet); a boy who pulled a leaf had to plant a new tree; boys might fight, but never before onlookers-spectators always got a thrashing from Sawney...