Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Golfers are setting up croquet wickets on their lawns, pitching horseshoes, setting up archery targets, swinging in oldfashioned, knitted tree hammocks...
Sleep. In Los Angeles, the parents of weary Thomas Hall, 21, left him at home asleep, returned several hours later, found that a 100-ft. tree had crashed through the house into the living room. Thomas was still asleep. In Salt Lake City, the Edward G. Thomas family slept undisturbed while somebody stole a ton of coal from their coal shed...
...WITNESS TREE-Robert Frost-Holt...
...Witness Tree is a testimony and a revelation of what Frost has managed to keep, through the happy and tragic years of his life. On the plus side is his passion for the passion that makes flowers bloom, trees scrape stars, and some people love each other. In his latest book, as in his first, Frost still goes for this heavenward earth-love as a horse goes for oats-see parts of his Come In, for instance. When he goes limpingly, as he does on many pages of his book, it is less because of his age than because...
...plus outweighs the minus in A Witness Tree, and Frost remains in this book a first-rate poet and a natural American. How timely a thing this is, readers of Frost's unexampled historical poem, The Gift Outright, will quickly discern...