Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gulls, a large canvas and well hung, was possibly the most striking picture in the show, not for its originality,: so much as for a brilliant and airy prettiness. The surprising tangle of branches streaked with light in Ross E. Draught's Dead Chestnut gave the tree as much character as a face. William M. Paxton had sent in three portraits, for one of which he got the Beck Gold Medal...
...Chicle is sap from the sapote tree, found in Central America. Preparing to go thither last week were President Thomas H. Blodgett of the American Chicle Co. and Author Gregory Mason, to study the civilization of the Indians in unexplored territories of Guatemala, British Honduras and Mexico. Their guides and collaborators will be chicleros (gatherers of chicle...
Practice & Business. Stories of the industry and honesty of young Herrick beggar those of the hatchet, the cherry tree. Legendary is the $8,000 note, endorsed for a slippery friend, which the young lawyer and his wife voluntarily made good, though he knew a legal quibble which invalidated his endorsement. Factual was and is the Society for Savings, a bank operated in the interests of depositor-members, with which Mr. Herrick early associated himself and of which he is now Chairman of the Board. Success and wealth were his with the turn of the century. From then Myron Timothy Herrick...
...Mills, climbing a trail in the Black Hills, encountered a grizzly. The bear lunged; bumped the shot gun over a ravine; bit off Mills's nose; seized him by the leg and started to drag him over the rocks. The hardy Mills stopped the flight by catching at a tree. Pulling his knife, he turned over and cut the bear's jugular vein...
...spread for the cause of better indoor athletic facilities. That this cause is among the worthiest no visitor to Hemenway will deny. And even an athletic agnostic will be tempted to dig into his pockets if he has ever attempted to take a swim in the so called Big Tree...