Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some reports of an early Virginia Grand Jury. The clerk of the court told them that George Washington had once been fined for "profane swearing." Mrs. Coolidge asked: "What was profane swearing'?" The clerk could not answer. So they climbed in their car again and proceeded to Oak Hill, the 2,000-acre estate of President Monroe. Here the President and Mrs. Coolidge saw dinosaur footprints in the stone flooring of the breakfast room, had tea. A detour on the return to the White House added pleasure to the trip...
...newspaperman went up the hill to Mr. Birger's roadhouse, a stark oblong building on the edge of some woods. A sign, needing paint, swung over the porch. It said "Shady Rest." The interviewer found Mr. Birger in the cellar, playing with a white dog. He had on a bullet-proof jacket. Six men sat around, spitting and smoking and laughing at the puppy. They all had rifles. Outside in the shed was an armored touring car that Charles Birger used when he drove abroad on his affairs. The roadhouse .was barricaded. Machine guns looked out between the shutters...
...newspaperman wondered about these things as he walked down the hill. That night the people of Herrin wondered too, hearing the woodeny familiar rattle of machine-guns nearby, seeing a glow like a petal in the sky over Birger's "Shady Rest." Carl Shelton had tried an attack. His followers, with their caps pulled down and revolvers in each hand, stalked through woods blazing with electric light toward the roadhouse from whose windows jetted rods of blue flame. The attack failed. Carl Shelton said he would get Charles Birger...
...Hancock. The painting, which was executed by Copley, is considered one of the most successful and finished examples of the work of that distinguished artist. The list of holders of the Boylston Professorships includes such famous names as John Quincy Adams '87, Francis James Child '46, Adams Sherman Hill '53, LeBaron Russell Briggs '16, and the present incumbent, Charles Townsend Copland...
...Queen Marie in the name of the city. Followed J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, on a revenue cutter to extend the President's greetings. A third delegation of "personal friends of Queen Marie," likewise on the cutter, included Judge ("U. S. Steel") Gary and Samuel ("Sam") Hill of Seattle, Wash., potent railroader, who extended to Queen Marie the invitation to dedicate his Seattle museum, "Maryhill" which provides the technical reason for her visit to the U. S. Seventy minutes after she landed at the Battery, Queen Marie and her party left Manhattan for Washington...