Word: forest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grand Admiral Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz, creator of the Imperial German Navy, went to a sanitarium in the pine forest back of Munich five weeks ago, tried to shake off an attack of bronchitis. Worn out with coughing, his 81-year-old heart gave way last week...
Biltmore originally covered 125,000 acres of North Carolina land, has been reduced by turning one section into a forest reservation, another into a village, to 11,500 acres. To house the 2,000 people employed on the estate, Paternalist Vanderbilt built a model village in the English Cheshire style, now a suburb of Asheville. Biltmore's first Chief Forester was Gifford Pinchot, later (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Here until his death in 1914 lived George Washington Vanderbilt, studying the dialects of the American Indian in his ornate library, helping his North Carolina tenants with their farming, issuing...
...annual trustees' meeting of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, President Robert Weeks De Forest announced that his institution had run up an impressive deficit of $883,384.35 during th past year, explained that this deficit, was caused by the enormous increase in the Museum's administrative expenses, asked for larger endowment funds in order that funds intended for purchasing works of art might not have to be diverted to help pay the Museum's upkeep...
...Frazier nor Miss Steck, in the leading roles, possesses a voice of such quality as these, their singing is competent, and their duet "Come Dreams So Bright" is one of the perennial hits. In the best of the comedy songs, "The Tinkers' Song", Mr. Danforth and his disguised foresters hammer, pantomime, and whistle with considerable versatility and enthusiasm. Fully half of the musical numbers are sung by the full company, and so reach a volume befitting the atmosphere of the outlaw group. Scenery, costumes, the Morris Dance in the first act, the later settings in Sherwood Forest...
When the report was digested, "Roxy" began his message. Gaily colorful is "Roxy" who, in 1907, after seven years in the Marine Corps, borrowed chairs from an undertaker and started a motion picture house in Forest City, Pa. Immensely genial, he proclaims that his chief ambition is "to live to see the day when I could throw all cares aside and go some place in a little flat-bottomed boat. And there in that boat I could sit under a big sunbonnet, with a little, old fishing pole, and I could sit all day and fish for sunfish and perch...