Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Confidential to "Scared Wife:" I'm enclosing you a copy of my article dated December 14, 1953, in which I describe the case of a husband who was tragically electrocuted while trying to rig up an electric Christmas tree in his bathtub without first properly grounding his feet by wearing a pair of rubber boots and running wires all down his back. Your husband should watch what he's doing, or else Christmas may be a sad, rather than a happy, time...
Dried seaweed can often make an excellent substitute for tinsel on your "personalized Xmas" tree or you-know-what bush...
Christmas is synonymous with trees, but my parents--how I don't know--have always resisted the inevitable childhood pleas for a fancy evergreen. They act like my older sister is--one of those serious types who gets very annoyed at the sight of the officially sanctioned "X-mas" tree in Mather dining hall. All her friends are waiting for her to spearhead an "Equal Time for Menorahs" movement. Who knows, it might catch on--but I hope...
...sides, far in the distance, one can see his neighbors. Their houses are undoubtedly fine and big, but they seem rather small-time from this inflated perspective. The estate encompasses some two or three city blocks. In front of the house is a huge lawn, bissected by the long, tree-lined driveway. On one side is a 5-car garage with a house on top, and on the other is a tennis court. Behind the house is another lawn, a garden, a sunken green house, a platform tennis court, an empty white swimming pool, a huge sandbox and playground...
...this fine, inventive paperback shows young readers hundreds of ways to brighten a rainy day or beguile the hours between Sesame Street and supper. This is a cut-and-paste book for all seasons: there are valentines to make, Halloween masks to wear, even Christmas decorations to festoon the tree-including a Santa Claus bird and a mouse on ice skates. Bakers are invited to try an easy-to-make-and easier-to-eat-orange cake frosting; puppeteers are shown patterns for a cast of characters; TV fans are even given a plan for constructing a paper set with moving...