Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boylston St. gets his foot measured by Papa who insists that the lucky skier wear a properly ftting sock for the occasion. Having got a measurement of the customer's foot, Peter, or one of the boys, selects a "last" (the "last" looks like a solid wooden shoe tree with no hands) nearest the size of the measured foot. This "last" is carefully sanded down or built up with pieces of leather so that it emerges a working model of the foot...
Morris immediately lit on the record of the mayor's administration, and started pecking like a woodpecker on a hollow tree. It was a difficult feat since O'Dwyer had run the Big City in competent, if unspectacular fashion and had managed to avoid scandal. Morris cried that O'Dwyer should have done more. Also, he had discovered that New York had bookies...
...long time, Lever Bros.' Missouri-born President Charles Luckman has been itching to move his headquarters out of tree-shaded Cambridge, Mass. He wanted to take his staff down to New York, to the market place, where it would be close to the advertising agencies that spend some $12 million of Lever money every year. He also wanted to build a new $6,000,000 Lever House and gather the top management of Lever and its three U.S. subsidiaries under one roof...
...Kicked Butch? With these fairly familiar ingredients, Robert Molloy (Pride's Way) has apparently set out to write a novel that would be to a Manhattan boyhood what A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is to girlhood on the other side of the East River. All the embarrassments and humiliations of adolescence are here, with perhaps a few more than is customary: the pimples, the first long pants, the first dates, the first fights, the first sexual experiences, and the earnest attempts, quickly thwarted, to become a football star...
...actually has ceased to exist. He is now "Mr. Raunce," butler-king of the castle; as he surveys the long table-the older servants mourning the dear departed, the housemaids coy and giggly-life takes on a new shape. "And the wicked shall flourish even as a green bay tree," cries the old housekeeper as Mr. Raunce, the notebooks snug in his pocket, rises to carve the fragrant joint...