Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache to cache,-a curious floating method not unlike that...
George Pierce Baker Jr. '25, of Cambridge, has been chosen Junior head usher, and Albert Conde Bickford '24, of Pelham, New York, Tree Orator, according to an announcement of the 1924 Class Day plans made yesterday. The arrangements for the exercises in Sanders Theatre, the Stadium, and the Yard, are under the general supervision of the head usher for Class Day. He also appoints the assistant head ushers, and all ushers who aid him in carrying out the details...
...Tree Orator delivers the speech which is given annually on Class Day near Holden Chapel. Only members of the Senior class are permitted to hear...
William Hale Thompson, onetime mayor of Chicago, inspired a deal of derisive amusement among the "know-it-alls" when he announced a plan to take cinema pictures of tree-climbing fish in the South Sea Islands (TIME, March 3). The New York Tribune hastened to classify him with the well-known Doctor Traprock, Baron Munchausen and others of similar notoriety. But the ex-Mayor has science on his side, though his geography may not be infallible...
...Chaulmoogra seeds, from which the oil is extracted, are a product of a tree which grows freely in Burma, Bengal and Assam. The oil with a little caustic soda added, yields sodium chaulmoograte, and free chaulmoogric acid is obtained by the addition of hydrochloric acid. If a little alcohol is poured into this chaulmoogric acid ethyl chaulmoograte is obtained, that is, ethyl estermiscible with blood...