Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christianity, Japanese shopkeepers are ardently in favor of Christmas. Tokyo's great Shirokiya's stores-rebuilt in glass and concrete after the earthquake of 1923-held a special Christmas sale last week. Colored lights hung from the balconies. On the third floor there was a huge Christmas tree, loaded with celluloid ornaments. Price tags on every table called attention to Shirokiya's bargain day-the managers are proud of the fact that they were the first store in Japan to adopt the one price system, now employ 1,300 people. There was a short-circuit...
...popped Mrs. Mackay indignantly not in the least indisposed. Nor was she, as the New York Daily News suggested, suddenly so eager to string popcorn for the Mackay Christmas tree in Roslyn, L. I., that she had renounced a $4,000 contract. Her Roxy program, she said, had been all arranged. She had planned to sing Christmas carols against a background representing the Nativity. She had even discussed details with the management, decided to use a donkey, dismissed the idea of including a cow. The Roxy management, threatened with suit, admitted that it had been mistaken about Mrs. Mackay...
Married. Charlotte Mills, 28, daughter of the late Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills of New Brunswick (N. J.) whose unsolved murder in 1922 under an apple tree in De Russey's Lane, with Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, began the famed Hall-Mills case; and one Harry Joseph O'Neill; in Philadelphia...
...When the converging marchers reached the District of Columbia line. Superintendent Brown's men appeared as a reception committee. "We'll hang Herbert Hoover to a sour apple tree!" cried the Reds. The business-like police conducted them to a new street, not yet opened to traffic, between a high bank and a railroad yard. There, inside a police cordon, the marchers were told to make themselves at home in their trucks. There was a food shortage. It was cold. The marchers jeered the police, waved their Red banners. Across the city they could see their objective...
FLETCHER (John Gould) Tree of Life...