Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides have colorful banners to wave. It is no longer a sequitur that all Americans are truthful and good because G. Washington chopped down the cherry tree and then 'fessed up. Democracy is not a working dream. It is a method. In terms of actual employment, Hitler looks good beside Roosevelt. Hitler will give you a quick answer--for a nominal fee. Is the fee worth it? This is the question to be decided, not avoided. If it is avoided, Hitler's false argument holds good. As long as these six hundred books advocate change through the democratic method...
...Please tell all our acquaintances that we are alive. In the word "alive," everything is said. After 22 days of an infernal journey, they brought us to the depths of Asia, the Kirghiz Steppes. There is no tree in view, nor even any grass anywhere. They have changed our station three times already, and we have now arrived here after two days' travel by ox cart...
Focus of carnaval is swank, tree-lined Avenida Rio Branco. There on Sunday thousands of automobiles (mostly sub-jalopy seven-passenger touring cars) brimming with people in costume drive along in the "Corso" singing, pelting each other with confetti. Monday the "Ranches" take over the town, small clubs of marchers who skimp for months for their costumes, compete heatedly in dancing, playing, singing. Tuesday night winds up with a contest of mammoth floodlit floats. Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is a half-holiday conceded to the slack-jawed weariness of the city...
...lobby of the Time & Life Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Every hour, on the hour, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., the little bird sashayed from side to side, opened its beak and sang its song. The little bird's perch was in a wooden tree which overhung the head of a startled-looking horseman (see cut), also carved of wood. The whole thing formed the central figure of famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles's latest piece of sculpture, Man and Nature...
...German Poet Johann Gottfried Seume: "Where song is, pause and listen; evil people have no song." Taking three huge blocks of north Michigan pine, each made by pressing planks together like a gigantic piece of plywood, Carl Milles carved the biggest one into his medieval-looking horseman and tree. From the other blocks he carved two flanking figures: a bristly, annoyed-looking faun and a pleased, curious-eyed nymph. When he had finished, Sculptor Milles claimed he had produced the largest piece of wood carving ever seen in the U. S., one of the three largest in the Occidental world...