Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S. poured in gifts for the President, mostly neckties and wristwatches. Fifty children of Cabinet members and other officials were invited to a special White House Christmas party...
...Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown...
...probability not be ready before the first of March. However, Harold Ulen, who is to coach the Harvard swimming team when the sport gets under way here next year, has had 20 men under his charge this fall and has been drilling them in fundamentals in the Big Tree swimming pool on Holyoke Street. In this way he is laying a foundation for next year when swimming becomes a regular sport for Harvard...
Ulen, who is the former Syracuse University coach, is greatly handicapped by the lack of space in the Big Tree pool, but he has had his tankmen in at the Boston Y.M.C.A. one night a week for some time. Eighteen of the 20 men out for the sport are Freshmen and these men will no doubt be the basis for the first Harvard team next year...
...Kerryville, Tex., one Hugh Day climbed a tree, imitated turkey calls to lure the birds within range of his gun. Fooled, another huntsman approached and shot Mr. Day dead...