Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alice sat with her back propped against the cool trunk of the peach-tree. The strong April sun broke its way through the leaves and made spots on her shining white apron. It was very hot, and Alice's head began to hurt her the way it did when she stayed shut up too long at school. Lifting a small cloth-covered book from her lap, Alice turned over, and lay on her stomach, dangling her feet above...
...that time Southerners used only one method of getting pitch out of a pine tree: Slash the trunk about waisthigh, let it drip into buckets. Some 12,000 farmers are still collecting pitch by gashing their pines with "catfaces" and having it distilled into 80% of the naval stores produced in the U. S.* In the early 1900's, when Southern lumbering was at its peak, a new steam process for extracting turpentine directly from, sawmill waste was introduced, and a new byproduct, pine oil, not present in the gum of the living tree, was found. It is this...
...these years Hoyer never forgot his paints. Brushes and canvas traveled with him in the same trunk with his spangled leotards and high-laced gilt boots. Every minute that he could snatch from the theatre he spent in museums or sketching in the country. Strongman Hoyer likes to boast that he has seen every famed painting in the world. His sextet broke up a few years after 1902 when it first arrived in the U. S. Torvald Hoyer became Understander for the Yoskary Trio, an Italian act. In 1915 he put away liniment and leotard for good, settled in Chicago...
...about the "risks" they say they take. He took his own risks by striking out around the world, landing in California and being turned down by editors all the way across the U. S. and back to England. Then suddenly his work caught on and from a deep trunk crammed with Indian yarns he coined riches faster than he could squander them on journeys which sent him roaming, thrilling and writing all over the world. Having absolutely rejected Kim at any price, Mr. Samuel Sidney McClure suddenly thought himself lucky to secure the serial rights alone...
CATCALLS - Peggy Bacon - McBride ($2.50). For her collection of caricatures, Off with Their Heads! Peggy Bacon supplied brief prose texts that described her victims in mean, oblique phrases. Thus Franklin Roosevelt's head emerged as "a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable." Cat-Calls is a collection of 36 poems in which the note of malice is a little muted, and in which an occasional tentative note of concern and passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse...