Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...survival? He followed his accustomed path from his house on Exchange Street to the Gazette offices off Commercial, spoke to his neighbors, squared off for work before a desk that shed old letters, mementos, galleys, gifts, ideas, books and last year's calendars like some queer surrealistic fruit tree ready to drop its harvest. His thoughts were gloomy, but no trace of gloom showed on his round cherubic features which, he says, make him look like a rear view of Cupid and prevent his being taken as a serious thinker. He went home for the dinner that in Emporia...
Vermont's tousled-haired, horticulturist Governor, George D. Aiken, proposed to his opponent for Republican Senatorial nomination that they jointly forswear roadside political advertising. His reason: "A wild clematis is far more attractive to our guests than either your face or mine on the side of a tree or barn...
While Democrats, tense, baffled and depressed, began to gather at Chicago, Republican Willkie stretched out under a tree beside an artificial lake in Colorado Springs last week, took his shoes off. To a local resident, who apologized for the 92° heat, Mrs. Willkie said reassuringly: "Hot weather makes him lazy and that is just what he needs. I hope he shows signs of increasing laziness...
Three of them lay huddled on the grass. Two others were crawling blindly away; one of them, hands to face, tried to get up off his knees, staggered and fell. A maple tree near by was stripped of leaves. An iron fence beyond was twisted awry...
...Named for Lewis Miller, one of Chautauqua's founders, and donated by his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. She presided last week at the opening meeting of Chautauqua's Bird & Tree Club...