Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story drawn closer than ever through having had to examine their philosophies?Tristram's easy-going "all's-well-with-the-world," Brenda's aloof "live-and-let-live". In village and vicarage, where intolerant stupidity sprouts as prickly and impenetrable as a monkey-puzzle (cactus) tree, the blow-flies scavenge as of yore...
...Significance. And so-including a description of the ceremony of the accolade, tales of touring the Continent, and many more intimate memories of princes, presidents and pre-Raphaelites-to the farewell performance of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (Hamlet at Harvard in 1916). Cables Herbert Tree: "All our stage is proud of you." After the passing* of one of the great actor-managers in the lofty line of Garrick, Siddons and Macready, his book is a snapshot album copiously illustrating the rich life of his day and a memorial for ex-audiences from Berlin to Vancouver...
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands, The smith a gloomy man is he- McCormick has his glands, So sang ribald young interns, stage comedians, stag-line chucklers, when (in 1922) Harold F. McCormick, famed harvester manufacturer, had been rejuvenated by Victor D. Lespinasse, Chicago gland expert. Last week this Dr. Lespinasse, protesting that he had received "entirely too much publicity" from his services to Mr. McCormick, issued nevertheless some statements. The price of parts, he said, was coming down. When asked what parts he referred to, he made it clear that he meant the parts of that...
...authors of this volume- there are two of them-declared that Lord Randolph "rose to the top of the tree by liberal use of insolence"; that "from the viewpoint of ability, character and brains Randolph was quite of the ordinary class, vastly inferior to his brother and without the genius, high courage and splendid patriotism of his son Winston. His notoriety was obtained by one endowment only-insolence, of the heavy 'made-in-Germany' kind." Churchill senior was viewed as a man who evinced "nothing but the increasing desire to eat, drink and sleep a great deal...
Event. Where the Susquehanna River, coiling under the roots of an enormous elm tree, lips the edge of a lonely oatfield in Pennsylvania, two campers lay last week. The night was thick; a fog, which had crept like a huge grey beast out of the riverbed, sniffed at their fire; they waited for sleep...