Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three hundred years ago in crowded London slums, hungry bellies ached, loaves of black bread were stolen. Next morning the gallows tree bore fresh fruit of petty thieves; punishment was quick, certain, cruel. Crime did not abate...
...Lynxville, Wis., one Percy Eagon of La Crosse, was up a tree. A razorback boar (male hog) had chased him there. The boar was almost as big as a cow. From snout to tail it measured 8 ft. 8 in.; weighed 850 to 900 lb.; had tusks 10 in. long. Two years ago the man first sighted the beast. Last week he caught it unawares and managed to shoot...
...time I have been homesick for England. For the last eleven years the longest time I have stayed in one place was eight months and that was when I was in London. I cannot keep still. If I stay like this my grandchildren will be tying me to a tree in the back yard. . . .I have decided to loaf about the world for two years and shall probably be all over the place unless stopped and made to write another book. Sometimes I wish I was just a plain, ordinary newspaper man again.'" George Bernard Shaw: "To the Anglo...
...Cruickshank commenced to aim. Not a sound was heard as Cruickshank continued to aim. Long, noiseless seconds passed while Cruickshank aimed some more. It was to be an important, lucrative putt. As Cruickshank drew back his putter, a horrid dissonance shattered the atmosphere. From the branches of a nearby tree came thick words: "What do you know about machinery?" It was the voice of Will Mehlhorn, another contestant who had finished (out of the money), perched himself on a lofty limb, there to watch the play of his more fortunate fellows. He later explained that he was sorry...
...creekside cave on the farm of one Jonas W. Swink. Mournful howls, deep in the earth, spurred their efforts. Crowds gathered. On the fourth day, they dug out the body of a large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died in Sand Cave, Ky., one Willie Nelson, slim farm lad, slipped into the digging and extricated Rip, prized foxhound owned by one R. V. Kelly, sporting bachelor. After dozing beside...