Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wind blew south and east, hurrying twelve huge inflated bags from Detroit to various spots remote and obscure in the Virginias. One great gas bubble, more enterprising than the rest, floated across the border and came to rest in North Carolina. Another settled in a dead tree on a hillside in the Blue Ridge Mountains...
...five at the tenth, then played par golf until at the seventeenth green he saw the crowd billowing over the turf to meet him and escort him back the new champion. With ten thousand people milling around him he sliced his teeshot into some heavy loam behind a tree, caught the rough with his pitch, put his third over the green, took a six. On the eighteenth he had another...
...case, the Vare-Mellon episode and the publicity it received were unfortunate for Hooverism. One cartoonist portrayed Boss Vare boosting the Beaver Man up a tree to get the Presidential apple. On the seat of the Beaver Man's white trousers appeared the dirty print of a smudgy, pudgy hand. In any campaign of Hoover v. Smith, if Republicans point to Smith's rich backer, Contractor William Kenny, Democrats will point back at Hoover's friend, Contractor Vare. If Tammany Hall is viewed with alarm, so will be the notorious voting of tombstones, alley cats, children...
Thus, in view of the associations of the past which have for almost two centuries accumulated about the annual Class Day, the festivity might be said to take on a new significance. The Tree and the ivy have not escaped the immutable law, but they have handed down their heritage. In much the same manner the classes which frolicked around the tree and solemnly planted the ivy shoot will bridge the gap and be reincarnated in the Class of 1928 which like all classes which have preceded it today smiles us last smile before drinking the bitter draught of departure...
...clock the Seniors will assemble a third time in front of Holworthy Hall, this time to march to Soldiers Field for the Stadium exercises, after the Tree oration which will be given by J. P. Crosby '28. While the Tree oration is being delivered to the Seniors the graduates and the three lower classes will assemble with the Glee Club and will march to the Stadium. The Seniors, after Crosby has finished his oration, march around the Yale, led by the class officers cheering the buildings and the Tree...