Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts the faker's delicious dancer (Jobyna Ralston). Latest Lloyd laughables: a "grinning" stork; laundry on a kite string; amorous tree-climbing; a monkey in a man's shoes; synthetic dishwashing; ringtoss with life-preservers to capture the villain, upend him, paddle him ashore with a broom...
When a cat catches a mouse, that is not news. But if a mouse should tree a cat, editors would smite their thighs...
Good sports, Their Royal Highnesses laughingly took a thorough sousing. A tennis party followed on shore, then tea at which the Duke plucked a ripe orange from a nearby tree and ate it, remarking at the stinging taste experienced on biting into ripe orange peel Finally the royal party were sprayed again as they put-putted two miles out to the Renown which promptly up-anchored for the Panama Canal and Australia (TIME...
...books, veiled in handkerchiefs, courteously concealed by immobility and cupped fingers, rose a sound. "H-s-s-ssss." Dr. Wark paid no attention. Ear- lier in the morning a janitor had cut down a straw effigy, bearing a distant resemblance to Dr. Wark, from the bough of a campus tree...
...about 17 per cent of the class, chose the Squash Courts as their field of activity, while 130 swim regularly at the Big Tree Pool. Winter Crew has attracted 14 per cent of the first year men, and 10 per cent have elected Basketball...