Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triumph of the new Senator was not unclouded; for shortly after the election he was informed that Mme. Caillaux, slayer* of Editor Calmette in 1914, had been severely hurt (dislocated hip and broken kneecap) when her automobile skidded into a tree on the way from Mamers, where the Caillaux estates are situate, to Le Mans, capital of the Department of Sarthe. Her first words on recovering consciousness were : "Was Joseph elected?" Apprised of the result, she uttered a cry of joy and was whisked off to a hospital, where an operation was performed. Senator-elect Caillaux rushed to his wife...
...Versailles, the wind blew-blew so hard that it uprooted a fine willow that had been weeping for Napoleon for nearly 100 years. In 1832, this tree was planted at Versailles from a cutting, obtained under British fire, by a Lieutenant Drouville from Napoleon's grave at St. Helena...
...Fleming, Ky., was reported last week to be dying an old beech tree, upon which, long ago, Daniel Boone cut an inscription: "Har is whar I killed...
...life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live things-centre on an inverted, deaf, lethargic, odorless, whistling sloth; the falling of jungle leaves; beachcombing at midnight; men and monkeys; a mangrove tree. His enthusiasm and patness often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic as the boat-billed toucans on the book's jacket, ranges from the masterly English of Galapagos and Jungle...
...historic trees of North America have reached-or are about to reach —senescence and demise. One by one, the innumerable Washington elms are passing Peter Stuyvesant's pear tree, antedating even them, flourished and brought forth fruit for more than 200 years- and is no more...