Word: tress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When Kit dis covers that she too is an outcast from Petersburg, he obligingly takes her back there. Expecting to be arrested for the pie episode, he goes to the house of George Montgomery, who takes him in and hides him. Soon...
...that is artistic without being vulgar and is the one ac- tress today who can wink without being suggestive. She has the grace that even Duse did not have...
...Public-Spirited Senior has purchased a dozen pairs of English sparrows for the yard, and they will soon be colonized in our elm-tress. April...