Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebration as was given the Hoover grandchildren-Peggy Anne, 4, Herbert III, 3, Joan, six months. No one worked harder for their good time than Grandfather Hoover. On Christmas Eve when President Hoover returned to the White House from Sherman Square where he had lighted Washington's community tree and broadcast a 37-word holiday greeting to the land, there was a dinner for the children of the President's secretaries and aides- the three Akerson boys, John Marshall Newton, French Strother Jr., Dr. Boone's daughter Suzanne, and the son of Capt. Train. Afterwards...
...Christmas night the annual "open house" will be kept at Phillips Brooks House, with a Christmas tree in the evening. Refreshments will be served, while H. W. Clark '23, secretary of the Alumni Association, will show the Harvard Film, a series of moving-picture snapshots conducted under the auspices of the Harvard Film Foundation...
...Aintrée. Entered were three good English horses-St. Roy, Kilbairn, and Man-amber. Best of U. S. entries seemed to be Stephen Sanford's Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing horses-17 of them- swung in a half-circle, and down the straightaway past the enclosure. The course was wet and the horses ran warily, in the heavy manner of jumpers, and slowly, for the finish...
Dear TIME, nevertheless-though one now and then is moved to differ with your estimates made or implied-you are great reading. . . . One would not be without you, for so a little one way up in the top of a sycamore tree can see the world...
...Vinegar Tree. Laura Merrick (Mary Boland) had had an affair with some sort of artist in her youth, was titillated when, years later, she was to entertain in her home the one she believed to have been her lover for an afternoon-Max Lawrence (Warren William). Vinegar Tree then proceeds to unfold some uncommonly good comedy for three acts, during which the artist finds himself entangled by Miss Boland and her younger sister and her virginal daughter. After the younger sister and the artist have gone into the garden together in Act III and the daughter is safely...