Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I first saw the cover of the Lampoon's Wonder-Book, I felt sure I should enjoy the number. One could hardly imagine a more charming prelude--a boy and girl wandering across a fairy heath where on near the witch tree and far from the enchanted castle they meet a glant and discover elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books...
...occasion would be historic. Poet D'Annunzio, who retired last summer to a hermit's existence in his exotic home at Gardonne would emerge, journey to Assisi, and plant a tree in honor of St. Francis. Quel tableau...
...Arthur Meeks of Belleville, Ontario, was pruning a tree last week. He sawed and sawed until a limb fell to the ground. Pruner Meeks was sitting on that limb. At the hospital, physicians say that he may not live...
...heard the roar of a big car behind him and a Studebaker drew up alongside, smashed into him, sped on toward Detroit. Mr. Ford's Ford spun around crazily, bounced over a six-inch curb, tumbled down a 15-foot embankment, came to rest with the aid of a tree. That tree was a better stopping point than the Rouge River. Spitting blood, Mr. Ford climbed out of the wreckage, staggered a quarter mile, appeared before his gatekeeper who immediately telephoned Mrs. Ford. She rushed from the house to the gate...
...almost as a picture takes its shape in the photographers dark room. They are rarely taken at a glance on first acquaintance. The landscape (in a literal sense) unfolds hit by bit, objects take their place in space in the inter space relation within the picture,--the tree in the foreground grows in convincing reality by which we look to the distant hill; suddenly the thing is formed, we see it clearly. The picture remains a picture but just as in actuallity the certainty of the relative fixation of objects is convincing so here within the picture their relation convinces...