Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drooltide. In Birmingham. Christy Hillman, 2, had a coughing seizure, reached in her mouth, took out a three-pronged, three-inch cedar twig she had swallowed from last year's Christmas tree...
Missing Parts. To plumb this jungle mystery, the Belgian district officer at Ponthierville assigned a native policeman named Bumba, who journeyed among the native tribes-the dominant Panamoli and their rivals, the Basua-and the scattered river fishermen who are born, live and die in their pirogues, made from tree trunks scooped out with fire. There had been a number of unexplained disappearances along the river, many more than could be accounted for by accidental drownings or by voluntary departures to go to the city, or farther into the jungle, or to escape a nagging wife. The crocodiles...
...hardly see the people for the planes. But her semi-abstract sculptures come to terms with the wood in witty and sensuous ways. Woman and Child (see cut), hunched forms of a mother and her papoose, seem in a separate world, somewhere between the nature of a tree trunk and that of people. Why did she quit business for art? Says she, elliptically: "I like putting butter on turkeys. I like peeling and feeling things. The same with my sculpture. You find a big old root''arid have to marry it to shape your preconceived form...
...women unleashed since the war, brokers have spread the gospel of manibiru (money building)*all over Japan, display elaborate charts and brochures in remote hamlets to show how buying one $28 bond every month will build to $2,800 in 78 months. Every investment company has its "Golden Tree" or "Millionaire" club, whose members avidly read financial news bulletins, flock to jargon-heavy lectures by female stock-market experts. Companies operate scores of advisory offices in department stores and train stations, where shoppers and commuters can dash in to buy shares in investment trusts promising yields as high...
...cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place for a self-remade girl...