Word: chestnut
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Diamond's $15 million retooling of the old Al Jolson chestnut is a recklessly schmaltzy, relentlessly retrograde musical that, according to its "surprised and devastated" producer, Jerry Leider, "received 4-to-l bad notices." Neil, who does not go in for such meticulous and perhaps masochistic tabulations, nevertheless says...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson ventures to Chestnut Hill to face off against Boston College, tomorrow night...
Cambridge of the day offered some idyllic moment--Dexter Pratt, the Village Smithy of Longfellow fame, spent hours daily under the spreading chestnut. And when the tree came down, the schoolchildren of Cambridge had a rocking chair made from its wood, which they presented the poet on his 70th birthday...
Joan M. Forde Chestnut Hill...
Then, in late 1900, Picasso decided to go to Paris. His departure was, for the world of art, the equivalent of Paul's journey to Damascus. He spent his working life in France, but he remained a Spaniard to his elegant fingertips. His piercing, unblinking deep-chestnut eyes spoke of the Spanish soul's passion. Even after he began to prosper, he was content to dress and live like a Spanish peasant, eating beans and drinking coarse red wine, in loud cafes and private rooms of indescribable clutter. And though it was in France that he found fame...