Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough spitting on Yard Cops, it was bad enough getting stuck up in a tree, but when that cat went to psych class and said he didn't like the lecture, that was sacrilege...
...tree it got stuck in was right in front of Widener, an affront in itself. The mob gathered and got a stepladder, too short, and then a sort of holding folding ladder, long enough. But puss loved life in the leaves and expectorating on Yard Cops, a pleasant occupation withal. It probably felt hurt anyway, the nasty man in Psych said it should be strangled for Bio 2a. Then again, this one didn't seem mad, though it was expectorating...
...want to climb to the top of the tree...
...when Cargill began buying farm and meadowland along the tree-shaded Minnesota River near Savage, Minn, little over a year ago, even Cargill-wise farmers hooted at the fantastic reason: Cargill was going to set up a shipyard to build ocean-going vessels. They had some excuse for hooting. Savage is 14 water miles from the Mississippi. For most of those 14 winding miles, the Minnesota was barely 3½ ft. deep...
There are authentic scenes as well: Francie and her brother collecting junk in the Brooklyn slums; purchases of five-cent soup bones, stale bread and smashed pies; the traditional childhood customs and mores of the Brooklyn streets. Example: storekeepers on Christmas Eve tossed their unsold trees at children; if the children stood upright under the impact of a tree, they could have it free...