Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Principles. In Moscow, Landlady Maria Merkulova was fined 100 rubles for nailing a sign to a tree warning tenants not to nail signs to trees...
Preventive Ounce. In Seattle, a judge suspended sentence on Ben Trigg on condition that the next time he "feels a drunk coming on" he chain himself securely to a tree...
...real love is the country and he spends at least half of the year at the governor's summer home, built by Ed Martin on the military reservation at Indiantown Gap. With his wife and their two dogs Jim Duff patrols the grounds inspecting the new tree plantings which are his pride. Unpretentious and homespun, Jim Duff has only one ambition: "To get something started in Pennsylvania which they'll be afraid to wash out when I leave here two years from...
Margery Sharp has a sharp eye. But it takes more than that to be a really good writer. In her slight, pleasant novels (The Nutmeg Tree, Cluny Brown) she has neatly observed the small, telling details of social manners that weightier novelists often pass by. Her special gift is sketching, snippily but without too much malice, the idiosyncratic types that seem still to populate the English countryside as in the days of Jane Austen. (This gift has paid off well; three of her novels have been chosen as monthly selections by the Book-of-the-Month Club...
George VI and Queen Elizabeth were in good shape, but by the skin of their teeth. On their way to the Derby they suddenly took a detour, after an ill wind had slammed down a tree on an auto ahead of their...