Word: norsemen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...street wags in a friendly, but nevertheless one sided game of hockey. About an hour and a quarter afterwards, the sky-rockets will begin to shoot and the cellar of the Union will witness hilarity such as it has not experienced since the days of Lief Erickson when the Norsemen defeated the Indians in a game of leap-frog on this very spot...
...central thought of the pageant is derived from the custom of tree worship practiced by the ancients. Starting with the crude and superstitious worship of the early Norsemen, the practice is followed down through the ecclesiastical history of the various tribes and peoples that inhabited Europe before the time of Christ, and finally ends with the springing into life of our own Christmas tree. The program will be divided into two parts. In the first, groups of people representing the different nationalities of the ancient world will appear, each group carrying its national tree of life. Dancing and acting representing...