Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, R. C. Macoy, TIME's stringer in Guatemala, talked to Somoza about the story and the Dictator said: "Wasn't that something! I never "thought lightning would strike a little tree, but it did. Of course, it wasn't all true, but I don't mind that. Shows people I don't control TIME...
Elliott Roosevelt and his wife, Actress Faye Emerson, were again determined to "make Christians out of Christmas tree dealers." Last year they undercut upstate New York dealers by selling 20,000 trees from their Val-Kill farm at $1 each. This month, with the price up from 75? to 95? apiece, they will take 50,000 trees to Manhattan, where tree dealers have never spared the customer...
According to Art Expert Samuel M. Green (who describes them in the current Magazine of Art), they are also some of the best. A Hatch cannon surmounted by two eagles, a near-life-size horse, and a tree full of carved cats have all disappeared, but a wooden treasure remains. Among the highlights: a gutter spout representing a sea monster and reminiscent of medieval gargoyles (though Hatch never saw any); a side entrance adorned with lion heads, snakes and stars...
...home in a tree in Hundred Acre Wood was blown down on such a blusterous day as this. Thereupon an acquaintance did a Noble Thing. Since I didn't intend that what happened to my Uncle Robert should happen to me, I accepted the Noble Thing he allowed. He permitted me to have his old home...
...scenery and costumes are magnificent to look at. Working only with frames and curtains, some furniture and a few dead tree limbs, Fletcher has achieved a striking effect...