Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goes to War; he charged businessmen $200 a page for eulogy, $50 apiece for a picture, then sold copies for $5. Last winter he set out to raise $100,000 for a statue to Negro soldiers of World War II. That time he had to back off from the tree with an empty pail-Seattle's Negroes complained that the project was not their idea and wanted nothing...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner; Dorothy McGuire; TIME...
Sporadic Shakespeare Festivals at Stratford go back as far as 1769. Since becoming an annual tradition, they have not only given the Bard perhaps his fullest hearing anywhere, but have taxed the talents of actors such as Sarah Bernhardt (as Hamlet), Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. And they have meant pageantry as well as playacting...
...Perhaps because of better relations between the children and their supervisors, old names for Mooseheart staff members-sluefoot, screw, night-caller, supreme being, walking tree-have died. An increase of tolerance has presumably caused the disappearance of such words as fish and fisheater (both meaning Catholic), and aquarium (a Catholic priest's home). Also gone are smutch (sneak-out), squirrel (psychologist, i.e., one who looks for "nuts...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME...