Word: spruced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellowstone National Park is as big as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. The Yellowstone Park is 80% heavily forested with spruce, fir and several varieties of pine...
...treasures that only learned students of art knew to be in existence." In 1908 he formed the Beecham Symphony Orchestra; turned soon after to opera, for which, from 1909 to 1919, he did more than any man in London. In 1915, he became conductor of the London Philharmonic Society. Spruce, brisk, genial, he is a good conductor, cultured impresario. He gave enormous amounts to Music, but, despite the immense wealth that his father left him, he was forced to retire temporarily in 1919 to untangle his finances, which were in a precarious condition...
...woman forester of Amawalk, N. Y., dug up a 35-ft. spruce from her nurseries and shipped it by special car to the White House?thereby furnishing the President with a living Christmas tree "as an example to the country that it is better to keep potted living trees than slaughter 5,000,000 young pines every year for Christmas...
...before Christmas the President spent at his office. Mrs. Coolidge and their two sons went to market and purchased an eight-foot Norway spruce Christmas tree which they erected and decorated in the Blue Room of the White House. Mrs. Coolidge also despatched 50 bunches of roses from the White House conservatory to the sales girls of the store where she obtained the great portion of her "White House trousseau." At 5 p. m. the President pressed a button, lighting the great National Christmas tree rising 60 feet high in the oval south of the White House. A choir from...