Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share in the proceedings was slight. It is about a Connecticut Yankee (Ramsey Wallace) seeking escape from Brazilian tropics, and his wife's apparent infidelity. While thus employed, he wins the heart of a native girl (Rosalinde Fuller), but decides in the end to go back to Red Hill, Conn., with his wife (Mona Kingsley). The native girl commits suicide...
...HEIRS OF MRS. HILL LOSE," heading a small item, brought echoes of mighty days and mighty men. Mrs. Mary T. Hill was the widow of James Jerome Hill, the "Empire Builder." He thrust railway lines to the Pacific, made millions in the process. The heirs of his widow have paid over $3,000,000 in inheritance taxes to the U. S. government; last week they lost their suit to recover...
...wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small...
...polo matches, rubs away the dust of Sussex and the bloom of spontaneity. Percival Fream, rich, meticulous, impotent, gives her first a diamond ring, then a marriage which includes all the luxuries save one. Mary gives dances behind the bright windows and in the wide gardens of Hill House but she cannot escape the knowledge that, for a steady diet, potatoes are more satisfying than candied rose leaves...
...veteran Crimson nine found the offerings of D. MacDonald, who toiled on the hill for the Terriers, no mystery, and nicked his delivery for twelve hits, including doubles by Tobin and Henry Chauncey '28, who were the outstanding performers with the willow for the University. Coach F. G. Mitchell's charges displayed a faculty of consistent hitting, ten of their hits being bunched in the four innings in which they chalked up scores. The total of 12 Harvard players left on bases gives a hint of the fury with which they assaulted MacDonald's offerings, and loose fielding...