Word: elms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elm Avenue Methodist Church Portsmouth...
...Thurber's own start in life came at the hands of Midwife Margery Albright, who rates, and gets, one of the most endearing portraits in the Album. Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought on a fit of sneezing that...
...fracas followers usually gathered at the famous Rebellion Tree, an elm east of Hollis Hall. It was there that John Quincy Adams' son George heroically told the mobs, "Gentlemen, we have been commanded, at our peril, not to return to the Rebellion Tree: at our peril we do return...
...never found Harvard spends a nickle carelessly yet," Richard Halloran said last night, while admitting that his company will charge over $600 apiece for moving the elm 30 feet beside Dean David's house and shifting the lindens' position last April. He added that the trees were planted about 20 years ago and "were quite an investment then...
...City Council officially approved the invitation presented by Councillor W. Donnison Swan '17. The event will take place on July 3 or 4 on the Common, the Public Celebrations Committee announced. The historic elm tree was supposed to have stood some-where in the present Common...