Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birds are singing, the tree buds swell...
Such was the phenomenon brought to light by one Robert Marshall, tree experimenter of Missoula, Mont. In the Nation, he wrote: observed a peculiar biological-political relationship in the annual rings of the trees. Three marked periods of retarded growth were manifest, just prior to 1828, 1884 and 1912. These were the years of major catastrophes for Republicans. In 1828, log-cabin-and-hard-cider Andrew Jackson smote them down; in 1884, rotund-reformer Grover Cleveland, in 1912, scholar Woodrow Wilson. ... It struck me that possibly the same lack of rainfall which caused the trees to wane also caused...
...TALE OF GENJI-Lady Murasaki- Houghton, Mifflin ($3) was reviewed in TIME, Aug. 3, 1925. Sequels are called The Sacred Tree and The Wreath of Cloud...
...gets a big picture of musician Joseph Adam, trembling, but courageous, facing an audience of long-bearded, rawboned (your own word), two-gunned, tobacco-spittin' individuals, booted and spurred and clad in chaps and ten-gallon hats, smelling unpleasantly of cattle. They have the noose ready and the tree all picked out in case Director Adam fails to please...
...Five" banks); at Torquay, England. Onetime (1919-21) president of the Institute of Bankers, he was also a noted Greek scholar, having translated the Iliad* and other poems. Henry Bell, banker, wrote of him: For while we see Crowns drop from kingly heads, and canker Attack the hereditary tree, Yet there is left one Leaf to be At once a Poet and a Banker...