Word: spruceness
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Long before Christmas, four neat little potted cedars were placed on either side of the White House front door. The "public" Christmas tree, a ten-foot Norwegian spruce glistening with artificial snow and icicles, was set up in the East Room before the broad French windows. On wintery Washington evenings the old house looked like something on a Christmas card-its white expanse gleaming in the shadows, the mellow, warm light from its windows shining through the ancient, weatherbeaten oaks and maples. Poinsettias replaced the ferns in the hallways; wreaths of spruce and pine cones appeared in the windows...
...death rate among the young was very high. Those who survived "benefited from a vigorous life with plenty of sunshine and fresh air." Also to their benefit, they ate nutritious, unrefined sugars and molasses, bread made from vitamin-rich whole meal. And they had many little safeguards: for example, spruce beer, a popular drink, was rich in vitamin...
...Museum of Natural History, and asked if he, Mr. Dallwig, were getting to be a nuisance. Not at all, said Dr. Gregg. In fact, he would like nothing better than that Mr. Dallwig enlarge and organize his work, make it a regular Sunday feature. That was in 1936.Since then, spruce, grey Mr. Dallwig has become known to thousands of knowledge seeking Chicagoans as the museum's sprightly "Layman Lecturer." Last week, in top form, Mr. Dallwig swung into his fourth smash-hit season...
...Friday, having outlasted the scholars, Pennsylvania alumni and students began to perk up. Strolling in Spruce Street in the sultry sunshine, they snickered at the university's ubiquitous silk-hatted trustees, snapped up Willkie buttons from Willkiettes who handed them out in front of Houston Hall, Bicentennial headquarters. Soon a university publicity man hustled out, shooed the Willkiettes away. Conscious of his duties as a host, earnest President Gates meant to permit no discourtesy to the guest of the day: the President of the U. S. He had made short work of a testy complaint by old Mining Magnate...
...doddering old Kaiser Wilhelm's spruce young grandsons, Prince Friedrich of Prussia, finding himself in England at outbreak of war, streaked for the Scottish Highlands to stay with his friends, the scrawny Duke and beauteous Duchess of Buccleuch & Queensbury. At the Corona tion in 1937 the Duchess helped to hold the canopy over the Queen. As Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland the Duke has as his subordinate (Deputy Governor) the Queen's father, the Earl of Strathmore. The Duke's sister is the Duchess of Gloucester, sister-in-law of King George...