Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literary leprechaun, the late Norman (South Wind) Douglas, many more bored people from the hectic capitals of the world have sought to get away from it all on Capri. They have succeeded only in bringing it all with them. Lavish hotels, boites and bistros, now abound on the island. Tree-lined walks that once soothed lonely philosophers have turned into a midway featuring the most expensive and expendable freaks on earth. Black velvet bullfighters' pants, a strapless bra, a conical hat seemingly made of macaroni, and masses of straw junk-jewelry are conservative evening wear for the well-dressed...
...they rose as one and gave her an ovation. Shirley-this time not acting-turned around curiously to see who was being applauded. After Sheba, following a favorite dictum ("An actress should make you forget everything she has done before"), she took a secondary role in the musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...
...known that Sir Winston Churchill suffered a slight stroke,* and that it was followed by one mild relapse. But, leaving his Chartwell home last week, he posed cheerfully for photographers, and waddled unaided to his car. pausing on the way to admire a lime tree in the yard. Beside him on the car seat, in token of the busy days ahead, lay a box of black cigars. He headed for Chequers, Britain's country retreat for its prime ministers, which he does not like as well as Chartwell, though it is closer to the pulse of things. There...
...centuries the Indians of Latin America have wrapped their tough, fresh-killed meat in leaves from the papaya tree before cooking it. They never knew why. but the leaves made the meat tender, kept in its juices. For decades scientists have known why: papaya leaf and the juice of the papaya fruit contain an enzyme which breaks down protein tissue in the same way as the stomach's digestive juices...
...Edith Wharton's Madame de Treymes, a French woman who is not as bad as she seems undoes an American who is almost too good to be true. In Galsworthy's The Apple Tree, a middle-aged Englishman remembers a long-ago love affair and the dead Welsh girl who was too innocent-hearted for his propriety. In Page's The Burial of the Guns, the men of a Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern...