Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me," sing the carolers-and then everything goes haywire. "Four bars of soap," they trill, "three cans of peas, two breakfast foods, and some toothpaste on a pear tree." Later, they launch into another holiday favorite: "Dashing through the snow in a 50-foot coupe." They stop to admire a cigarette-ad Santa Claus with a tattoo on each arm-one reading "Merry Christmas," the other "Less Tar"-and then jangle through Jingle Bells with a cash register clanking in the background...
...from other playwrights. American dramatists, by contrast, tend to be astonishingly inbred: Tennessee Williams produces William Inge; Inge mates with his parent to produce a frail and sickly creature like, say, Speed Lamkin, who can also show O'Neill and Miller and Heaven knows who-all in his family tree...
...recognize the cosmopolitan nature of thought in the world today," Mvusi says. "You can't expect a narrow native art when there are Coca-Cola signs on the remotest tree in the jungle...
...magazine called Halfway Down appeared in 1925, and was continued under the name of The Bay Tree until 1926. This was an attempt to revive the Radcliffe Magazine, and contained the same type of contributions. The following is an excerpt from a ballad...
Tarquin Olivier, 22-year-old son of Cinemactor Sir Laurence, uncovered a graceful "D.L."-which the 19th century Kilroy had mentioned in his journal-carved in the trunk of a giant baobab tree. Doubtful at first, African scholars examined photographs of the find, agreed that the presumption was correct...