Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before Christmas the President spent at his office. Mrs. Coolidge and their two sons went to market and purchased an eight-foot Norway spruce Christmas tree which they erected and decorated in the Blue Room of the White House. Mrs. Coolidge also despatched 50 bunches of roses from the White House conservatory to the sales girls of the store where she obtained the great portion of her "White House trousseau." At 5 p. m. the President pressed a button, lighting the great National Christmas tree rising 60 feet high in the oval south of the White House. A choir from...
Work on minor alterations in three University athletic buildings, the Hemenway Gymnasium, the Big Tree Swimming Pool, and the squash courts, was begun during the holidays and will be completed within a few days, it was announced yesterday by the Department of Physical Education...
Sanitary conditions at the Big Tree Swimming Pool will be improved by the addition of a staircase which will make it unnecessary for those wearing street shoes to walk over the tiles near the pool...
...Lady of Quality reminds one, appropriately enough, of a Christmas tree dressed in the bravery of gold and tinsel (England in the 17th Century). With a number of substantial presents pendent from its boughs, preliminary inspection will bring complete approval. As the play proceeds and the visitor begins to poke around behind the gaily decorated boughs he finds to his dismay that the picture tree has no roots of plot. It teeters badly and threatens to collapse at the first breath of a yawn. When the heroine is growing up as a tomboy in the country there is entertainment. When...
...singer at the International Canary Show at Chicago was presented to Mrs. Coolidge; Mrs. Coolidge made arrangements for a choir of 60 voices to sing Christmas carols on the White House grounds on Christmas Eve; President Paul D. Moody ¶ Middlebury College, Vt., axe in hand, felled a pine tree which was shipped to Washington to be erected in the oval behind the White House as a national Christmas tree...