Word: chestnut
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...Neath the spreading chestnut tree...
Underneath the spreading chestnut tree...
...Californian Charles S. Howard's Sorteado, four-year-old chestnut imported from South America last year: the 38th running of the Manhattan Handicap; outstripping seven of the best handicap horses in the U. S. and setting a new North American record (2 min., 28 2/5 sec.) for a mile and a half; in his debut on the Big Apple (New York tracks); at Belmont Park. Former record: 2:28 3/5 set by Handy Mandy at Latonia in 1927 and equaled by famed War Admiral at Belmont...
When Odon von Horvath was killed in Paris last year-a falling chestnut tree struck him as he sauntered along the Champs Elysees-he had written a prize play, two short novels, The Age of the Fish and A Child of Our Time. These had given him a European reputation as one of the most gifted German writers of his generation. That reputation was confirmed by most U. S. critics last February with the English translation of The Age of the Fish, a poetic, Dostoevskian Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in which a young German schoolmaster discovers the maggots in Nazi morality...
...Australian Davis Cuppers: the Interzone Final; defeating a team of Yugoslavians ; four matches to one; at Chestnut Hill, Mass. This week the Australians meet U. S. tennists in the Challenge (final) Round at Haverford...