Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fresh air, difficult problems for him always, are still difficult. Thrice a week he swims in the fresh green waters of the White House pool; daily he is massaged. But fresh air is another thing. He rarely goes to church of a Sunday, and such things as Christmas tree lighting, Gridiron dinners, etc. come too seldom. So Dr. Mclntire encourages him to travel, likes to get the President off on a trip every two or three months. Next trip: probably Warm Springs...
...Salla front, to protect themselves against surprise attacks, the Russians began to string barbed wire from tree to tree in front of their dugouts, hoping to entangle Finnish skiers, who usually attack at night...
Last week Artist Wood's first big canvas in three years, Parson Weems' Fable, went on display at the Associated American Artists' Galleries in Manhattan. Like the usual Wood, its spongy trees are set in a smoothly stylized landscape. But it is also a deft period piece. Mason Locke Weems was an itinerant parson and book agent, pioneer in fictionized biography. Unauthenticated is his pious anecdote of young George Washington and the cherry tree. Artist Wood has the worthy parson drawing back a cherry-red, cherry-edged curtain to show a tiny, Stuart-faced Washington, complete with...
Though Harvard medicos released all but their sickest charges so that they could return to their homes for Christmas, there were still two patients in Stillman when College reopened yesterday. With an air of pseudo merriment, they lit a Christmas tree in the Infirmary and ate large Christmas dinners. Each received a game from the college...
Then he pressed a buzzer-the one that goes off like a small bomb under Steve Early's desk. Down the colonnade that is called the President's Walk, past the swimming pool and up the elevator, there awaited him a highball, a Christmas tree shiny with colored balls and tinsel, two soap-smelling, be-diapered grandsons-warmth and relief from the crushing responsibility, the solemn loneliness that is a U. S. President's when he has to make a momentous decision...