Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full-page advertisement in the rotogravure section of the dignified Providence Journal. In a dozen different poses he was depicted as the "All-round Man"-lawyer, statesman, soldier, traveler, tennis player, public speaker, heman. Three of the pictures showed muscular Democrat Green stripped to the waist-chopping a tree, wrestling and, over the caption "Builder," heroically lugging stones...
...gentleman riders, last week was disastrous. At Media, Pa., at the fall meeting of the Rose Tree Hunt Club, Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond's Fairbanks II, ridden by Carroll K. Bassett, fell at a brush jump and broke his neck. Three days later at the same jump, the same thing happened to Kendal Boy, owned by Fairfield Osborn Jr., ridden by Stanley Flagg...
Pisonia Branonia is a New Zealand tree which Maoris call "The Birdcatcher." Its seeds grow in clusters covered with heavy gum. When small birds fly into the tree, their feathers are caught by the sticky seed pods. The more they struggle, the tighter they get gummed up. A resident of New Plymouth, N. Z., named J. Wheeler has a birdcatcher tree which has trapped hundreds of small birds. Last week it killed its largest victim, a brown owl which natives call the rum. Englishmen the Morepork...
...Wardensville, W. Va., Wilbur H. Long said to his children: "Now I'll show you how to skin the cat." He climbed a tree, "skinned the cat," lost his grip, fell on his head, died...
...that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond endurance by the piteous sight of the Mahatma quivering on a cot in the prison yard beneath the shade of a mango tree. One & all they rushed away to patch up with the Raj some sort of settlement to which the Mahatma would agree...