Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once more the vernal cherry-tree is green in memory; and in this false dawn of spring, Art come creeping to Harvard Square. Janus-faced, she looks both before and behind. Looking ahead with the Surrealists, she surveys the works of the Conqueror Worm, when men in the morgue shall be all but ashes and the halibut on the table shall be all but dust. And harking back with Harkness, she emblazons the cravats of Cambridge with a new heraldry...
...songs which the choristers will sing include: "Heart of Oak", music by William Boyce, 1759; and words by David Garrick, 1759: "The World Turned Upside Down", anonymous; "Liberty Tree", by Thomas Paine, 1775; "Battle of the Kegs", by Francis Hopkinson, 1778; "Chester" William Brilings, 1777; "The Yankee's Return From Camp", by Edward Bangs, 1775; "American Hearts of Oak", by J. W. Hewlings, 1775; and "War and Washington", by Jonathan M. Sewall...
...World Turned Upside Down" was played by the bands of the allied armies when Cornwall is surrendered at Yorktown. Thomas Paine, who composed the ballad "Liberty Tree" was also the author of "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man". "The Battle of the Kegs", written by Francis Hopkinson, signer of the Declaration of Independence, provided a hilarious interlude for the distressing winter at Valley Forge...
...Love Rankin, a U. S. woman doctor attached to the Chinese Red Cross, one day last week tried to visit her husband who teaches school in a Shanghai suburb. Japanese bombers roared overhead. Frightened, she ran, thought of hiding behind an automobile, changed her mind, jumped behind a tree. The automobile was blown to bits. Bombs burst all around her, buried her in debris. Two coats and a sweater protected her from serious injury...
...Glee Club will sing eight colonial songs, "Heart of Oak," "The World Turned Upside Down," "Liberty Tree," "Battle of the Kegs," "Chester," "The Yankee's Return from Camp," "American Hearts of Oak," and "War and Washington...