Word: oak
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...Royal Oak...
...Other important Chicago suburbs : Riverside, whilom seat of Society; Hinsdale and Wheaton, gentleman-farmer communities; Oak Park, Rogers Park and Wilmette, ''middle class" communities, civic-spirited; Evanston, puritanical and efficient; Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe, more countrified and country-clubby; Highland Park, a cross between these and the larger pretensions of Evanston; Lake Forest, "the Newport of the Middle West...
...purity of the French language with the vigilance of a duenna-decreed that the word "cocktail" has no place on the tongue of the Frenchman. Not even was coquetcle, a substitute compromise, allowed. The word is outlawed. Georges Clemenceau, "The Tiger," was interviewed in Vendee. He stood under an oak and said: "This is my old friend. A little older than I. It has lived 2,000 years...
...interviewer mentioned the League of Nations. Purred the Tiger: "I thought we were talking about trees. How can you talk of the League when the weather is so sweet, the sky so clear and the oak so beautiful...
...handsome, upstanding young red oak of 20 summers...