Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adopted him, a pretty, tallow-colored stripling, in 1909. She had him educated privately in England and at the Sorbonne in France. Then she took him out among the Theosophists. At Adyar, India, on December 28th, 1925, he was lecturing to a very large audience under the Banyan Tree. He was concluding his lecture by speaking of the World Teacher, with the words, "He comes to those who want, who desire, who long, and-" a contraction passed over his body and a voice of penetrating sweetness rang through his lips. . . . "I come to those who want sympathy, who want happiness...
...trusting only her own being as the total of reality it is given man to know in his time. The writing is fibrous yet delicate-again like a vine. The author, a mature maiden lady, is little known, save for a volume of children's poems (Under the Tree) called "graceful," "clear," "candid" by Critic Louis Untermeyer...
Outside of Plain Dealing, La., little dun dogs peered through slack, seamy, deep-set eyes, sniffed eagerly. Five hundred and two armed men followed. They shook trees, stuck sticks up hollow logs- suddenly licked parched lips as the hounds began to whimper. They were looking for Judge Powell, Negro. Fool, he had slain Sheriff Dooley. Now they had found him. He whimpered as the hounds leapt about him, yelped. He cowered in the cotton field. Guns spat. He shrieked, groaned, died. Little dun dogs closed in, sniffed eagerly. At Wytheville, Va., last week gentry stormed the county jail; shot Raymond...
...From a bureau drawer the General produced "a little chunk of something resembling overshoeing." The guests beheld him place a piece of this substance in his mouth, chomp his jaws, smile. They dubiously examined the "overshoeing," which the General called "chicle" and said was the gum of the zapote tree. They too chomped, smiled...
...Pittsfield, Mass., Stanley Andremewitz, 14, lay abed, slept serenely. Thunderheads crashed over the house; a bolt of lightning hurtled into a tree in the yard, shot over into Stanley's wall, flashed toward his very head, encountered a picture of Christ over the bed, smashed the glass, was deflected into the Andremewitz kitchen, doing Stanley no damage...