Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a green bay tree his powers had spread...
...Philadelphia last week, some 75 experts of the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol held a symposium on the evils of drink. With scientific gusto they tore The Drunkard limb from limb, laid bare his heart, brain, blood, stomach, nerves. They shook his family tree, examined his jail record, dissected his education, wagged their heads over his abuse of Wife & Child. As they drifted out of meetings and refreshed themselves with cocktails, many of the experts confessed that they had no idea of how to cure The Drunkard. Some doctors thought it was a chemical job. Some criminologists said...
Died. William Joseph ("Billy") Hill, 41, author of such back-home song hits as The Last Round-Up, The Old Spinning Wheel, Wagon Wheels and They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree; of heart disease; in Boston...
...Conway, N. H. a church bell started an eerie tolling and in North Conway a house caught fire. In Salem, Mass, a rare Japanese tile gargoyle in the Peabody Museum fell and shattered. In Albany, N. Y. a huge Christmas tree in the State Office Building toppled. In Portland, Me. a butterfly came out of its cocoon, flew around. In Chicopee Falls, Mass, a water main cracked. In Central Falls, R. I. instruments and bottles in the glass cases of an operating room rattled while surgeons were operating. In Nashua, N. H. a church's stained-glass windows were...
...British Royal Family, who always observe Christmas with great simplicity - the royal Princesses have never had a Christmas tree and did not have one last week-rusticated quietly at a place kept rigidly secret lest Nazi airmen bomb George VI while the King was reading his scheduled Christmas broadcast. This year British Broadcasting Corp. titled its annual program Christmas Under Fire, scheduled Welsh workers singing in a factory, an Army choir in the Holy Land and a broadcast from an R. A. F. patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would...