Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of Hot Springs, Ark., were stirred one evening last fortnight as they had not been stirred since April 6, 1917. A pack of newsboys, coursing through the crowded streets at cinema time, were baying like gutter beagles, "UX-try, UX-tree-e! 'Clare War on Chine! M'rines goin' tuh Chine! UX-try! UX-tree! War wit' Chine...
...rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever persuade him to drive a racing car? Answer: Only a heroine with an entrancing figure, like Cinemactress Barbara Worth, who appears opposite Reginald Denny in an amusing automobile film that runs smoothly enough with standard equipment...
...clock--Graduates, the three lower classes, and the Glee Club march to the Stadium. Seniors, led by class officers, march around the Yard, cheering the buildings and the Tree...
...stump in the rear of the temporary White House is the temporary home of Rebecca, pet presidential raccoon. One day last week Rebecca vanished. Attachés called "Rebecca! Rebecca!" Located, eventually, in a neighboring yard, Rebecca hopped from tree to tree while pursuers rushed from trunk to trunk. After two hours Rebecca, tired, permitted herself to be captured...
...bier of Señora Calles which was transferred from the train to a hearse by members of the Cabinet and high army officers. President Calles entered his limousine, which followed the hearse at a walking pace as it passed along the magnificent Paseo de la Reforma, a tree-lined boulevard extending in an absolutely straight line for over a mile from the centre of the City to Grasshopper Hill...