Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...army officers, foreign envoys stood by for the simple funeral service. The President sat motionless, with bowed head, in a damask-covered gilt chair. His eyes followed the casket as it was borne away from the White House to the beat of muffled drums for its last journey to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Social engagements at the White House (including the Cabinet dinner and the Diplomatic reception) were cancelled for 30 days. The President ordered all flags half-staffed, broke an ancient tradition by having the White House flag lowered halfway to mourn the death of one other than...
...lute had its heyday from the 14th to the 17th Century. It has a pear-shaped body built of pine or cedar staves pieced together like the crescent divisions of a melon. Its neck (lengths varied) has a fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which...
...Shinto priests went to the mountains, selected a grove of hinoki trees, a variety of cedar. The following spring lumbermen in spotless white jackets, chosen for their piety and good character, felled the trees, floated them down the river to Yamada. For nine years every step of the construction from the seasoning of the lumber, the hewing of the beams to the final sweeping of the completed temple followed the fixed unvarying ritual. Every workman, from the humblest coolie to the supervising priest, had to bathe and pray daily, wear a spotless white jacket and shirt each morning...
Near Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken, threw down his rifle and plunged into a wood. With solemn faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night...
...wooden chalet roof, was built by the Count de Maaroes and stands on a site first used by Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace on which he was sitting the ground tapered away into a shadowy skirt of pines, cedar, lindens he had laid out himself - the park. With his Polish land sold, now that Pilsudski was in power there, this place had become to the pianist, far more than his property at Nyon or his ranches in California, important as the background of his comfort. With the effort...