Betty B.
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3,598 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Japan prides itself on the wonderful avenue which stretches for 15 miles along the road to the beautiful temples of Nikko.
That road is shaded by giant cryptomerias.
France has hundreds of avenues quite as wonderful, many of which recall to me the Rose of Royal Palms in Rio de Janeiro.
especially those of Rio's botanical gardens.
One may still see the damage done, these trees, by the shells of the Germans, and it makes one's heart swell to ride through the battlefields, now once more under crops.
The trees are in fairly good condition for quite a distance.
Then dead stumps ranging from the height of a man to that of a telephone pole break the symmetry of the line and scar the landscape.
The tops of the stumps are like gigantic toothbrushes
for the wood was simply shredded by the shells of the big guns.
But see, it is darkened.
We are flying in our automobile over roads where the trees shut out the sun.
There are woods at the right and the left, and the only breaks are long alleys or roads cut at regular intervals.
We are passing through one of the great forests of France.
How beautiful it is, how well kept, and how thrifty.
There are no leaves on the ground, and the undergrowth of young trees is rich.
Each one seems to be nursed.
There are no broken limbs and no logs clutter the earth.
France has vast tracts of such forest and square mile for square mile, far more timber than the United States.
Notwithstanding the fact that not more than a hundred years ago, the eastern part of our country was covered with forests.
We have been wasting our timber as a drunken sailor wastes money during his few hours on shore.
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