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Word: tree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Aesop, McNeil said: "It seems . . . that a poor serpent was unhappy because everyone was afraid of him, and he concluded that the fear was due to his unfortunate voice. So the serpent pleaded with Jupiter to give him the voice of a nightingale. Up in the tree he went and started to sing with all the seductive charm of the nightingale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Battle of the Fables | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...handsomest egg in last week's show was carved out of rock crystal. Inside it was a golden tree, and perched in the tree was a peacock which, when removed and placed on a table, strutted, turned its head, and folded and unfolded its fanlike emerald tail. The last Fabergé egg to be presented to the Czarina (in 1916) was prophetically grim: made of blackened steel and poised on four bits of shrapnel, it contained only a miniature painting of the Czar and Czarevitch Alexis with staff generals on the Eastern front. Two years later the imperial family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Imperial Eggs | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Dickter, a 19 year old pre-medical student, died when his car struck a tree and burned. Police said that the impact of the crash had tossed him into the rear seat. He was alone in the car at the time of the accident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Dies In Accident | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

When the spirit moves him, Montreal Sculptor Robert Roussil, 24, does not fuss around with preliminary sketches; he snatches up hammer & chisel and attacks the raw material as it stands. Last summer he saw an oddly shaped tree, a tall pine with a forked trunk, and the spirit moved. By the time all the chips had fallen, Roussil had an impressionistic piece sculptured in the totemic form: a father standing in front of a kneeling mother holding a child. He called it Family Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Totem & Taboo | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Slight, dark-haired Mrs. Juanita S. Tucker is postmistress in the tiny hamlet of Christmas, Florida. Each Christmas for the past 15 years, thousands of letters came for postmarking and she lovingly stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest." But then the Post Office Department informed her coldly that as a postal employee, she was not allowed by regulations to place "personal or unofficial indorsements" upon mail. Mrs. Tucker was crestfallen. Last week she wrote the Tampa Daily Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Christmas Cachet | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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