Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon found it good. Her adult life was a grey, lonely history of work, but she never quite lost the sunlight that filled her head when she was small. Wrote she at 50: "You can go into a beautiful new country if you stand under a large apple tree and look up to the blue sky through the white flowers. . . . I suppose I went to it very young before I could really remember and that is why I have such a wild delight in cowslips and apple blossom-they always give me the same strange feeling of trying to remember...
...Theo Meier, 38. They told no harrowing stories of hunger sieges, frozen feet or welted backs. Painter Le Mayeur had lived through the war in a tile-floored seaside villa overhung with purplish-pink bougainvillea blossoms. His studio was a garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok, once one of Bali's best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with Javanese sarong dyes on a burlap-like cloth woven from tree fiber...
...tree, be a sled...
Danny sang it for the first time one night in February 1940, in La Martinique, a Manhattan basement nightclub. He was an immediate hit, not only because he was funny singing in Russian dialect, but also because he puckishly suggested that he, too, could be a tree, a sled, or anything his comic imagination wanted...
...comes by this small-townish, unstarlike domesticity without trying too hard. As a child she was badly injured by a falling tree branch, remained an invalid for about a year. She had to wear a corrective brace, was forced to become more or less stay-at-home and introspective. But at 14 she was well and worldly-wise enough to apply for a job in the chorus of the Broadway musical Sing Out the News, and pretty enough to get it. Singing and dancing for a couple of months, she returned to high school to graduate with high marks, went...