Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...takes place against a new and interesting background, handled with laudable control-the tea-plantations of Java. Lewis Stone's urbanity, is rewarded by his wife's decision to stay with him after all, following an episode in which Stone holds the amorous Nils Asther against a tree at the point of his double-barreled tiger-rifle, while a real, terrifying tiger snarls toward the sound-device. Best shot-Greta Garbo drying her feet...
...Indianapolis, one Aaron Everett, 69, grump, quit his son's home because of the incessant radio. Searchers found him nestled in a hollow tree, grumbling over and over "A fellow can't sleep at all," and munching gingersnaps...
Enthusiasm ran high at the Big Tree Pool yesterday afternoon when the championship division of the University swimming meet was held before a large gallery which crowded the building. Forty men competed, including the stars of the fraternity and Freshman contests last week; but the honors of the day went to W. S. de Lima '31, holder of many amateur titles, who made his first appearance in races here this year and captured the 100 and 200-yard free style events...
Stars from the fraternity and Freshman divisions of the annual University swimming meet, as well as upperclassmen who have not yet competed, will gather this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock at the Big Tree Pool in search of the Harvard championships for the year...
Great was the rejoicing in the wake of this forecast by the cherry trees' public custodian. Last summer the heavens had opened to pour upon Potomac Park a deluge of almost Biblical proportions. For days the cherry tree roots had stood in rotting slime. Their leaves browned, fell off. They were, apparently, dead. But now they had come alive again and were ready to draw multitudes of spring visitors to Washington to gaze in gabbling ecstasy. Great, among Washington's hotelmen and shopkeepers, was the name of Grant who fostered this renaissance...