Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train stopped at Ludlow, where the President and his wife entered an automobile to drive out to Plymouth. On the way, their car alone turned aside. Mr and Mrs. Coolidge got out, climbed to the little cemetery on the hill, bowed silently over the graves of son Calvin Jr. and of the President's mother and father...
...What the Sam Hill?" queried virile Pacific Coast he-millionaires last week as Seattle, Wash., news organs scare-headed that Sam Hill will entertain Marie, Queen of Rumania, on her September visit to the U. S. (TIME, July...
...Hill," besides figuring in Seattle vocabularies as a euphemism for "the Devil," signifies paunchy Samuel Hill, millionaire husband of Mary, daughter of the late rail magnate, James J. Hill. Sam Hill, candid, reputedly confessed to Seattle pressmen last week that he built Maryhill, his estate on the Columbia River, "just to entertain a king or queen in," that he has been stalking royal guests ever since...
Died. William Stephenson, Canadian aviator, whose neck was broken when his plane crashed into a windmill's arms; at Richmond Hill, Ontario...
...death," he would have been the greatest landscape artist of any period or people." The pictures that he painted with such stormy concentration were usually as tranquil as twilight. Brown cows sunk in August meadows, fly-twitching, drowsily browsing; sheep streaming, grey blurs, cloud-patterned, home over a hill to a fold of peaceful and fleecy sleep; valleys folded in mist, green V's in the breast-hollow of a hill-range, ponds lying like shields at sunset, fishing boats blown out of shimmer to the white shadow of a cliff patched by a marvelous tiny woman, waiting, orchards...