Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arlington National Cemetery, the Gold Star Mothers honored the Unknown Soldier and the Unknown Soldier's Mother. Schoolchildren threw soil from all the States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul...
Stomach Tablets, Shoe-Blacking. Any Frenchman can be a candidate, may nominate himself if necessary. Busy candidates have campaigned by phonograph, hiring henchmen to play their speeches on street corners. As usual in Paris at election time, boxlike billboards surrounded many a tree trunk last week, for the State must supply to each candidate free billboard space. If the candidate, instead of advertising himself, used his space to advertise stomach tablets, shoe-blacking or mineral water, that used to be the candidate's own business-but no longer. Last week the threat of a 10.000-franc fine ($400) kept...
Born- To Novelist Louis Bromfield (The Green Bay Tree, A Modern Hero, et al.), and Mrs. Mary Appleton Wood Bromfield; a daughter (third child); at Senlis, France...
...tradition which had its origin when such music was the only entertainment available. For the first time the Instrumental Clubs will have a part in the program; it is to be hoped they will vindicate the committee's belief that the activities should be representative of the undergraduates. The Tree Oration, with the Police Gazette, is relegated to the shades of Limbo...
...Cosmopolitan Magazine, Publishers Farrar &; Rinehart and Author Bromfield's lawyer still seem to be haggling. In oblique reference to the possible serializing of Bromfield, his old publishers say of his current offering: "This novel has not appeared in any periodical." Other Stokes-Bromfield books: The Green Bay Tree, Possession, A Good Woman, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, Twenty-Four Hours...