Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one of the amenities of the season of goodwill towards men, and Landon only one of many guests to be welcomed at the White House. Most numerous group of guests was the Clan Roosevelt. Night before Christmas when the President went out to light the community Christmas tree opposite the White House in LaFayette Square, he was accompanied by a round dozen members of his family (see cut). Nor were they the only family members at the White House. Only members absent were Daughter Anna, now living in Seattle with her husband John Boettiger, newly chosen to run William...
Next morning, however, when the grandchildren rushed into the bedroom of the President of the U. S. to take their stockings from his mantelpiece, when the family assembled around the Christmas tree in the second-floor hall, and later when they went to the Church of the Covenant, filling an entire row at an interdenominational Christmas service, Mrs. Roosevelt was absent. During the night she had sped to Boston to spend Christmas at Franklin Jr.'s bedside. Although doctors finally refused to let him go home for Christmas, he was still officially described as "doing fine." all rumors...
...traipsing off to Boston on Christmas Eve (see col. 2), Mrs. Roosevelt completed a schedule of holiday duties more than equal to those of the President. On that day alone, besides the community tree lighting, she helped the Central Union Mission distribute toys to 600 children assembled in a theatre, took part in the President's party for the White House office staff, another party in the East room for the White Household staff, and attended a Christmas party of the Salvation Army. Her activities during the rest of the week were every bit as strenuous. Most notable...
Newshawks followed Mrs. Harkness upstairs to inspect more closely what was easily Animal of the Year, only a two-months infant but still the first giant panda ever captured alive, safely transported 10,000 mi. from a hollow tree in China's chilly Szechwan Province (TIME, Dec. 7). Opening the hotel windows wide, Mrs. Harkness called for boiling water, proceeded to warm the small creature's nursing bottle of powdered milk, syrup and cod liver...
...through the smooth ones. There is Bert Lahr, the most emphatic comedian on the revue stage, as a noisy Hollywood actor trying to chisel out of paying his income tax and as an over-manly baritone in a hickory shirt bellowing, "What do you chop when you chop a tree!" while occasionally getting an untimely handful of chips thrown in his face from the wings...