Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initials of Henry A. Wallace . . . spell HAW, I suggest as his party's emblem the Haw tree (Viburnum prunifolium), specifically the Black Haw, sometimes called the Stag Bush. Should any artist wish to paint this phenomenon of nature, I give him Charles Sprague Sargent's description (Manual of the Trees of North America; Houghton Mifflin...
Apparently ignorant of the well-aged chestnut told for years by Wheeler and the late Woolsey, Jones sawed himself out of a middle-sized tree on his front lawn, sustaining a broken right arm in the subsequent descent...
During the week, the President did a lot of bustling in & out. On Christmas Eve, before a chilled crowd of 10,000 Washingtonians, he appeared on the White House lawn for the traditional lighting of a community tree. Christmas afternoon, he trudged out to the White House garage to shake hands with all the chauffeurs. He drove to the Navy's Bethesda Hospital and the Army's Walter Reed Hospital to greet disabled veterans. He received a cocker spaniel pup named Feller, the first presidential dog at the White House since the Roosevelt Scottie, Fala...
...tidy, tree-studded campus of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute this week, Negroes and whites (including Alabama's governor) will honor a onetime slave who was once traded by his master for a broken-down race horse. Shy, shuffling George Washington Carver, who died in 1943, had spent a lifetime performing scientific miracles. In his tiny laboratory, which he equipped from a rubbish heap on the campus, he had created hundreds of industrial products out of the common stuff-clay, peanuts, potatoes-he found about...
Radiomen, who vie viciously with one another to decorate their Christmas programs with boughs of Hollywood, admit that they have all been outvied this season by a boyish Roman Catholic priest. The Rev. Patrick Peyton had under his Christmas tree two of radio's choicest sugarplums: his popular, weekly Family Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., Mutual), with a performance of Anatole France's Our Lady's Juggler, and a special, Peyton-inspired, star-studded dramatization of the Nativity, The Joyful Hour, aired last week...