Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supernumeraries in this novel include a 300-year-old tree trunk which shatters transcontinental telephone connections, an owl whose electrocution weakens a wire, a boar whose drowning plugs a culvert and washes ballast from a canyon railroad track, a young telephone linesman, a power dispatcher, a highway superintendent for the Donner Pass section of U.S. 40, a junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions...
...heir who enraged the folk of Bethel, Conn, by grazing sheep on his lawn last June, moved into a new estate at Southampton, L.I., shortly trotted to police with a complaint of grand larceny. Standing on the $100,000 estate when he bought it, he said, was a holly tree. Now it was gone. Cried Rogers: "I liked that tree. My wife liked that tree." The chief of police went on a vacation...
Hunters. In Wheeler, Ore., an excited hunter stumbled, fell when a flock of geese honked overhead. His gun went off, bagged three. In Pittsfield, Mass., a hunter fired his shotgun at a squirrel in a tree, missed, brought down four raccoons...
...fellow painters. He was doing somber Cézanne-like landscapes and gloomy Picassoish nudes and rabbis before most U.S. modern artists had abstracted their first cube. Painter Weber's prize-winning entry, a ruggedly outlined, moody landscape called Winter Twilight, showed a pair of gaunt tree trunks grimly clutching an overcast sky before a background of cliffs and buildings...
...pool itself, which still goes by the name of "Big Tree," is now turned over exclusively to enrage space for old sets and scenery and a workshop for building more of the same. A platform covering the pool is the floor for the second story at the level of the former edge of the pool. With chairs, tables, and couches spread about, this has been turned into the living quarters for the members where they can relax and waste idle hours. Here also rehearsals and tryouts will be held to discover future John Barrymores and Noel Cowards...