Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheyenne found out about Nubbins when his father went looking for a Christmas tree. Within a week's time, newspaper readers across the land were looking at pictures of the thin, flannel-clad child with solemn brown eyes. Then the gifts began to pour...
...camp. The halls were filled with hand-carved wooden gifts flown from wounded servicemen at Lowry Field, Colo., a wheelbarrow, a tommygun, a family of walking ducks. There was a black cocker spaniel from one of Father Hoffman's fellow workers at the Union Pacific Railroad, and a tree-size fir branch from the Cheyenne Park Department...
Thomas H. Gad, V-12, of Eliot House was chosen president of the Harvard Dramatic Club Thursday night in an election at the Big Tree...
...Election Day, Franklin Roosevelt slept late, set out at noon in the warm sunshine for the oak-beamed town hall at Hyde Park. There, at the polls, where he gave his occupation to Inspector Mildred M. Todd as "tree-grower," he enthusiastically accepted a piece of candy from Miss Todd, entered the booth munching...
...porch by Valet Arthur Prettyman. Mr. Roosevelt remarked playfully that on the basis of partial returns it appeared that returns were partial to Hyde Park. In high good humor, grinning at the battery of photographers, he noted several children in the branches of one of the trees, and recalled how he had climbed the very same tree as a child to escape discipline. From that tree, he said, he saw his first torchlight parade from the village, at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. "I got out of bed to come downstairs in an old-fashioned nightshirt...