Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...locker room of Washington's Burning Tree Country Club, Washington Post and Times Herald Publisher Philip Graham turned to the man next to him. "Your wife," he said, "is costing me a lot of money." Replied Dwight D. Eisenhower: "How do you mean?" Explaining that the Post had paid dearly ($2,400) to serialize Dorothy Brandon's Mamie Doud Eisenhower, A Portrait of a First Lady, Graham went on : "The articles cost me so much that I asked my circulation man what he thought. You know what he said? 'Mamie...
...into the King's arms by making her salon a favorite with the most brilliant of France's intellectuals-Philosophers Montesquieu, Helvétius, the great Voltaire himself. The decisive meeting of the King and the beautiful bluestocking occurred at the splendid "Ball of the Clipped Yew Trees," when 35-year-old Louis and his courtiers masked themselves with headdresses of yew branches. One poor lady of the court allowed herself to be seduced by a right-royal-looking "yew tree"-only to find on her return to the ballroom that she had barked up the wrong...
...furlough but to the moral decomposition of Nazi Germany. Her gentle doctor father, informed on by a tenant in his own house, is carted off to a concentration camp, and his ashes are subsequently returned in a cigar box. Ernst charms away such horrors with a symbol, a linden tree flowering affirmatively amid the ruins of his home-town square. Filled with a deep if obscure faith in the future, he marries Elisabeth and goes back to war, only to be killed by some innocent but suspicious Russian peasant prisoners when he frees them. For Ernst, and for the reader...
Compromise has been found in development of the "balanced life" theory. The outstanding characteristic about Amherst, however, is that life around the grassy, tree-dotted common is not balanced at all. Since the conclusion of the War, the intellectual side has held a recognized and clear upper hand. This victory was signalled in 1945 when separate alumni and faculty committees, in planning for the post-war college, voted to abolish the fraternity system. Tradition proved too strong for such a drastic measure and the fraternities were merely reformed. But the victory has been none-the-less secured...
...Beryozka (Little Birch Tree, so named for a Russian folk song and dance) consists of 31 girls and four male musicians. Opening night was attended largely by professionals of one sort or another-professional British ballet dancers and professional pro-Russians. What they saw looked pretty much like a Russian version of the dances at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. Carrying birch branches and dressed in a variety of robes and Cossack costumes with boots, the girls whirled, waved and wove through a succession of intricate drills and sinuous dances. They displayed great verve, precision and variety...