Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blanket, rash Rancher Jaerl Nafte and his foreman proceeded to kiboko a black named Sixpence Temba who, they said, had insulted a white woman. Spreadeagling the horrified blackamoor on a wagon wheel, they lashed him until their arms were tired. Later they suspended him by one toe from a tree and went on with the kibokoing though he screamed that they were killing him. When tired again, they left him and went off to a picnic. Sixpence, as he had prophesied, died...
This memorable day (Sept. 8th, 1836) is ushered in by clouds, but I cannot bring myself to believe that they will not disperse. Everything should be bright on this great anniversary, the two hundredth year since the foundation of Harvard College.... The noble elm of Washington, the tree beneath which his tent was pitched in the revolutionary war, is waving quietly in the breeze not far from my window, the only object in the whole circle of my view which saw the infant day of Harvard...
...Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences (in 1909). But the Bishops of Buenos Aires, having heard of Rabelais' earthy humor, and having heard of the impious Anatole France, denounced...
...Manhattan, a policeman was assigned last week to guard a gingko tree in City Hall Park from vandals who believe a piece of gingko brings good luck. The tree, a gift to the city from some Buddhists, was personally planted by Mayor James John Walker...
...Crimson baseball forces will engage the University of Maine nine in the first home game of the season this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field. It will be the first game of the year for the Pine Tree State players, while the Crimson, fresh from its Southern trip, should be well prepared to meet the Northerners...