Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nashes live in a 200-year-old house with their widowed mother. Their father left them one of the biggest Christmas-tree businesses in the U.S. In winter they stop trading dinosaur tracks, start trading Christmas trees...
...insatiable curiosity which he has had ever since he was a Wisconsin boy. Several times he has been on death's brink-once a black boy in Borneo yanked him out of range of a huge python which was about to drop on the explorer from a tree...
...plot, which you may remember from Miss Sharp's "The Nutmeg Tree," is a set-up for the extravaganza which Miss George dotes on. It opens with her in a bath tub, selling a lot of junk to a pawn broker who stands outside the door. It ends with Miss George, as Sir William's wife, claiming the title of "Lady," rarely associated with her name before. In between Miss George returns to her daughter, whom she hasn't seen since she was three and finds her a prig and just as stuffy and sure of herself as the rest...
...parade streamed on-past the Common where the old Elm Tree used to stand; up Beacon Hill by the State House (Paul Revere got his riding orders near by); down School Street, within hail of the scene of the Boston Massacre; in sight of Faneuil Hall, where the Boston Tea Party began-past the landmarks of a simpler time, when men knew beyond argument that democracy was worth fighting...
Good example of taleteller's detachment is The Stone of Chastity (Little, Brown; $2.50), a bit of delicate bawdry in a warless, now almost mythical England, written by a Malta-born curlylocks named Margery Sharp, author of The Nutmeg Tree. Professor Isaac Pounce disrupts the village of Gillenham by uncovering a legendary steppingstone from which unchaste lassies, unfaithful wives invariably slip into the brook.* Miss Carmen "Smith," the artists' model, slipped of course; but nobody expected that the stone would reveal the professor's mild nephew, Nicholas, to be a bastard-or that Nicholas would rejoice...