Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entries have beet received from the teams in the high school race, in which 19 teams have been entered. They are Oxford High. Worcester High School of Commerce, Providence La Salle, Providence Technical Rogers High, Westerly High. Arlington High.. Schenectady High. Woburn High. Stoneham High. Weymouth High. Brain tree High. Quincy High, Newton High Concord High. North High of Worcester Winchester High. Beverly High, and Newton High. Schenectady High, winners last year, will be favorites again to day, although the Arlington harriers of Coach William McCarthy are considered to have a good chance. Five preparatory schools have entered...
...rather thickly painted still life of brocade, a vase, a fiddle. Paris painters, recalling Carnegie's previous recognition of more salient French painters (first prize, 1927, to Henri Matisse; first prize, 1928, to André Derain) were considerably puzzled by this award. Edward Bruce painted an Italian pear tree, leafless, in full blossom. This canvas won first honorable mention and $300. Meticulously Painter Bruce had picked out each bud against a leaden sky, producing a pleasant, symmetrically composed picture, eclectic, Japanesque. It is not particularly remarkable, but Edward Bruce has not long been a painter. U. S. merchant, banker...
...Harris, 25, Negro care taker, took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
...remember the hops, the big holiday dinners, the eating "at ease", the carefree feeling that creeps over one, the heavy boxes from home, the Christmas tree in the mess hall, and other things. But, I certainly cannot forget the terrible silence at the first meal to which the other three classes returned. That ominous silence meant that there were five more months till Graduation...
...faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night they trampled the marshes and woods while up in a tree crouched Johnny. In the morning he came down to face his fate. The searchers had found a scarcecrow, its sawdust head pierced by a bullet, prostrate in the corn...