Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artfully translated by Arthur Waley the first four parts of Lady Murasaki's 900-year-old Japanese masterpiece, Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers), have given many an Occidental reader an appetite for the dainty psychological morsels of antique Nippon. With all its predecessors' inimitable flavor, The Lady of the Boat tells a simple story, though its characters are modernistically complex...
...daughter, Dr. Hugo Eckener, famed airship master, was jaunting through Germany in his shiny new Maybach-Zeppelin touring car, long, low, slate-blue with dark blue upholstery, glittering nickel. Gawpers along the way noted that he drove clumsily. Near Kempten he tried to pass another car, smacked into a tree, knocked it down, wrecked his car. Dr. Eckener & family were thrown clear, not badly hurt...
...familiar U. S. Literary Figure he lives in the old stone Dower House at West Chester, Pa., goes to an office in the business section of the town to write his books. Some of them: The Three Black Pennys, Java Head, Cytherea, Balisand, The Party Dress, The Limestone Tree, Sheridan...
...curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree. Out of the automobile, unhurt, stepped its driver, hulking Author Theodore Dreiser...
...haired men were fishing with spear or bow & arrow, clearing manioc fields or fetching firewood. Some were erecting great communal houses of wicker. Although not new in anthropology, the construction of the houses was original with the Yawalapiti, who never saw any other houses. They invented trusses of tree trunks to bridge over the large areas which communal dwellings require...