Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office's Christmas, and most members planned to spend it quietly. Because of the shortage of foreign exchange mistletoe, usually imported from France, was virtually nonexistent, and commodities, from potatoes to caviar, were also in short supply. Although Bureau Chief John Osborne had managed to acquire "a large tree and a small goose," Correspondent Eric Gibbs's plight was typical. Cabled he: "Whether we eat turkey this Christmas depends on Number 22. If, as seems likely, there aren't enough turkeys to go around, our butcher will pull numbers out of a hat to decide who gets...
...infant daughter, a clockwork tank for his young son and, weather and the news permitting, planned to fly to Stockholm to be with his family. Overshadowing the Cairo bureau's festivities was the fighting in the Holy Land. Bureau Chief Don Burke's family had a Christmas tree and all the trimmings and hoped he would be there to enjoy it, but chances were that he would be covering the news in Palestine on Christmas...
...Presents. When la mêre was at last free of her cooking, she still had plenty to do. She had to help the older sons, Jean, 24, and André, 22, decorate the flat with red paper bells and ribbon, trim the tree with baubles, set up a little creche with an electric light above it. She had to make certain that the maid set the réveillon table with red-candled silver candelabra and the beautiful lace cloth Madame had crocheted herself 25 years ago. Then there were presents...
...grandparents gave no presents at Noël. But now U.S. and British customs have invaded the old traditions-although the chief gift season is still le jour de Van (New Year's Day). So there were little gifts, mostly for the children, below the tree...
Things were seasonably merry on the Christmas-tree farm at Hyde Park. Elliott Roosevelt, who owns the business with his mother, sold twlve-foot trees at $1 retail, to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers," he explained. He had sold 50,000 trees wholesale, and figured that within a few years he would be selling 100,000 a year. Following precept with example, Elliott & wife Faye (in a mink coat and jodhpurs) juiced up the sales by doing some hawking in person-and got rid of 500 trees...