Word: trees
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Frank Pewarski, New York City policeman, after climbing the 65-ft. Rockefeller Center Christmas tree to bring down a high-striding drunk: "This has to be the most unusual thing I ever had to do. But some of the branches were wired on. What kind of Christmas tree is that...
...like fashion, Pirate Jenny of Brecht's Threepenny Opera dwells in a totally different realm from The Saga of Jenny of Lady in the Dark with lyrics by Ira Gershwin ("Jenny made her mind up when she was three/ She, herself, was going to trim the Christmas tree./ Christmas Eve she lit the candles -tossed the taper away./ Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas...
...guile, principle and erratic power. But Guerin's journal reveals the cunning, self-righteous man who rose to the nobility on the corpse of Paumier. "In the worst possible taste," notes Le Roy Ladurie, the unabashed judge chose as his coat of arms an uprooted apple tree - in French, a pommier...