Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next evening she ascended the Pincian Hill, leaped off the 40-foot embankment of the sometime Borghese Gardens, landed in a net spread by Fascist police "to discourage the frequent occurrence of suicides at this place," was haled before another Fascist magistrate, clapped into jail "until morning...
HARVARD 1929 EXETER Tudor (Capt.) l.w. r.w. Crosby Putnam c. c. Hill (Capt.) Crosby r.w. l.w. Thomas Stanley l.d. r.w. Fitts Bigelow r.d. l.d. Carver Jackson g. g. Stearns...
...Captain Hill, fast roving center for the Exeter six, is a dangerous shot and has scored against all the goal guards which he has faced this season. At one defense post the Exonians have a hard checking player in Fitts, who is also a scoring threat when he takes the puck on a dash down...
...precipitous slope which ascends from the lower town to the royal and aristocratic quarter. At the church, Monsignor de Greve, representing Cardinal Mercier,* welcomed Prince Leopold in the name of the ecclesiastical authorities of Belgium. Finally the royal motors snorted up the last and steepest part of the hill, traversed the famed avenue once sacred to the residences of courtiers, brought Prince Leopold "home"- to what is considered by many architects "the handsomest modern royal palace in Europe...
...audience is full of society which is only there in order to see who else has come and gloomy music critics who feel they must say fearful things about the performance in order to keep their reputation with the public, I always feel depressed. It's an up hill job. If society isn't listening and critics let it all in one ear and out the other while they listen to what the lady in the row behind is saying it is no use attempting to sing. On the other hand when it is obvious that the orchestra and balconies...