Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invasion of the Pine Tree State marks another increase in the importance of the indoor season. Members of the track team are taking part in two big indoor meets this week. It was also announced yesterday that the Crimson would be represented in the American Legion Games in Boston on February...
...data at first hand. I call the Court's attention to the fact that my works, Queer People and Diversions of a Prime Minister, are well known. . . As I entered the park I was accosted by a young woman, and we sat down upon two chairs placed under a tree at some distance from the public walk. . . I engaged her in conversation, and later, when she said she was hard up, I unbottoned my coat for the purpose of getting out a few shillings and giving them to her. . . At that moment the police officer who has just testified fairly...
...telephone call, which specified house and street, but not the need, sent an engine of the Atlantic fire department clanging out into the snow. The destination was quickly attained, but, before the men could inquire into the cause of their summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree and sent one of their number hastily...
...None the less I personally chopped down my own Christmas tree and superintended its decoration. Later I donned the full regalia of a Prussian Feldmarschall, inspected the servants' quarters and distributed gifts among the domestic staff. With the approach of evening I clapped a black skull cap upon my head, and delivered a sermon on the Nativity to an audience composed of Hermine (my wife), Wilhelm and members of the Dutch nobility. Finally Hermine and I seated ourselves upon an improvised throne in the Great Hall. Behind us was placed a huge scowling bust of Frederick the Great. I presented...
There were fewer gondolas and less dancing by the Venetian lagoons, than in the productions sponsored by the late Sir Herbert Tree and E. H. Sothern. The Manhattan babittry did not appear to mind, however, and laughed loudly at the perennial valid gag: "It's a wise son who knows his own father...