Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time of domestic crisis, he took the helm, taxed incomes, lowered the tariff, wiped out a treasury deficit, repealed the corn laws which were obnoxious to the masses. In short-"he lost a party, but won a nation." Soon he was thrown from his horse on Constitutional Hill and died in three days, mourned in manors and in slums According to his will, he was buried, not in Westminster Abbey, but in the church at Drayton...
...consul, his wife and their children hastily set out with other refugees for an eminence known to ancient Chinese poets as The Purple Mountain and to moderns as Socony* Hill. Arrangements had already been made that U. S. and British warships in the harbor would lay a barrage to protect this valuable property-the signal for the barrage to be a rocket...
...Consul John Ker Davis, eleven U. S. marines and 24 refugees barely managed to gain Socony Hill, under a running fire from Chinese snipers. Marine Plumley alone was wounded, but was able to walk, continuing to return the Chinese fire. At Socony Hall, Mrs. Davis, the other women refugees and the children crowded into a spacious bathroom, lay down on the floor. The children, unconcerned, counted the bullets pinging into Socony Hall. Consul Davis parleyed with the Chinese attackers, buying them off from hour to hour, until those at Socony Hall had no more money. Then said a Chinese...
...kennel doors at the Casa Lucceola, which is near San Remo on the Riviera, Author Stern relates with considerable finesse certain events that took place there in March, a fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish rake, who had often enough growled that Rennie had "neither chic nor chien" and who despised...
...first number on this evening's program will be Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 36. This will be followed by the initial presentation of the Poem for Orchestra by Hill. "Pacific 231", an Orchestral Movement by Honegger, will be the next selection...