Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again in England, and, with Victor, Columbia, Decca et al. catching up fast, she was about to do likewise in the U.S. Leading Britain's hit parade for the sixth week was a simple little ditty bringing the story up to date. Lyricist Tommie (Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree) Connor, who had written a set of words for an English version of the original Lilli song, had figured that most of her wartime admirers were back home with wives of their own; so, with Songsmith Johnny Reine providing matrimonial music, he had made an honest woman...
...luggage still mark the site of the ambush. Soldiers for our party, clutching their carbines, fanned out to survey the scene; one flushed a parrot from a high fern. "I knew three of the dead," said their lieutenant, and idly fired four rounds of ammunition at a towering lawan tree. "In memory of Mrs. Quezon and my three friends," he explained, as two orchid blossoms fluttered down...
...clock one morning last week, a formal procession of Peruvians turned into the broad, tree-lined Alameda of Chile's capital city, Santiago. It was Peru's Independence Day, and the procession, headed by well-groomed Ambassador Carlos Miró Quesada, drew up before the equestrian statues of Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martin, laid wreaths at the statues of Peru's (and Chile's) heroes...
Bombs & Bayonets. The man who planted the big tree was Ryuhei Murayama, art collector, patron of the No dance, and, until his death in 1933 at the age of 83, Japan's most vigorous and imaginative publisher. In the 52 years that lean, white-bearded Murayama ran Asahi, he built it up from a struggling lo?al sheet to a national institution with editions in Osaka, Tokyo and Kokura...
There was a faraway look in the marinated eye of a waiter at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. He leaned back against a plaster palm tree, listening to the liquid tones of the songstress running over the lyrics of Bali H'ai. A yokel at a side table dropped his fork. The waiter glared, snatched up the fork, jabbed a clean che at the customer, and sank back against his palm tree...