Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better a Blind Mule. The day school opened, Old Sawney squatted on his heels beneath a beech tree, while new boys paraded past-as many as 75 in 90 minutes. The principal shot a question or two at each one, then tipped off his teachers as to which ones were likely mischiefmakers, and which ones would be poor students. He was usually right...
...going to be a four-by-six-ft. sign set in a lattice frame and I'm going to put it in the yard in front of the house by that tall pine tree-sixty feet high, it is-that the Trumans planted the day the President was born. Folks will be able to see it from highway 160 and from the Missouri Pacific depot both. The depot's just a block away...
...near Kensington, Minn. dug up a 202-lb. engraved chunk of rock now known as the Kensington Stone. It may be seen to this day in an office window on Broadway Avenue, Alexandria, Minn. The farmer found it, so the story goes, embraced by the roots of an aspen tree. Bewildered by its cryptic angular markings, he carted it to Kensington and showed it off. A young Norwegian-born University of Wisconsin graduate named Hjalmar Holand heard of the stone, came to look it over. Then & there began the one-man crusade of which America: 1355-1364 is the latest...
...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
...hands almost every day ever since she was nine. Her mother, a gym teacher at Los Angeles' Jefferson High School, put it there. Pauline is convinced that her mother set her playing tennis "to get me off the streets and doing something more ladylike." She was a tree-climbing tomboy. Every night when her father came home, Pauline and her younger brother greeted him by walking down the street on their hands. Papa complained once: "I wish I could see those children right side up once in a while...