Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair, and mud may not be thrown into the street; you can't beat a carpet or tie a horse to a tree on any public ground. Even gambling is covered by these ancient rules. No person, according to one ordinance, may expose a gaming table of any kind in any lane, alley, or street...
After trekking 75 miles west to the Alaska Highway at Trutch, B.C., Farrel got the news through. Last week R.C.A.F. men flew north from Fort St. John to get Pich's body. Farrel had told them where to look for it: in a snowy tree's branches, safe from the wolves...
...lined with lofty pines and handsome flowers. On the 15th hole, when his ball went in a ditch, Harmon shed shoes & socks and went into the water to play it. At the 17th (similar to the famous 14th at Scotland's St. Andrews), his drive hit a tree and caromed off into a roadway. But Claude recovered, made one over par on the hole. He got another 70. The early pacemaker, Lloyd Mangrum, had run afoul of Augusta's notorious greens, and dropped behind. Playing those greens was like putting down a marble staircase and trying to stop...
...show not thy Bow Tie and thy Whitewalled Tire, lest thy friends shall be legion; for verily I say unto thee thou shalt know a tree by its fruits; therefore hear my words thus...
Producer Maurice Evans, who dropped $49,000 trying to transplant The Linden Tree to Broadway, couldn't-say he hadn't been warned. "Why on earth are you in management?" Bernard Shaw once asked Evans. "It is the ruination of actors. Instead of putting money into the theater you should be taking money...