Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lectures on various phases of backstage work are given regularly both by members of the club and professionals. Broadway keeps an eagle eye on Big Tree, and several shows which opened in Cambridge have later been taken over by New York producers...
...Stonewall Jackson, an "indifferent and slouchy looking man" whom some thought "deranged," suddenly halts while on midday reconnaissance, dismounts, unbuckles his sword, goes to sleep with his head on the root of a tree...
...detail was spared to make the royal visit enjoyable. Official introductions over, Trans-Jordan's King and Turkey's President drove along Ankara's tree-lined main avenue, past granite Government buildings and cheering throngs to the presidential villa for a quiet evening of chess. Next day there were prayers at the Hadji Bayram Mosque and a state dinner at Premier Recep Peker...
...hooking badly. He tipped his cap to Jim Turnesa, who with Sam Snead made up the threesome. Drawled Vines: "Try it, Jim. Think I'll rest a while." A few minutes later, Vines got off a third try; it hooked too, but took a lucky bounce off a tree onto the fairway...
...Nine out of ten writers either feel like J.W., or else they used to in former days. Only about one in 20 tells him to go chase himself up a tree...