Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tide of super-taxation in the British Isles has long been breaking up the great estates and driving limpet peers to incorporate them selves. Last week the Earl of Derby (Darbi) sold large property holdings in Liverpool and nearby Bootle and in Kirkdale and Walton to one Philip E. Hill, London financier, for about $8,500,000. The Earl, however, still retains his famed country seat at Knowlsey, also nearby...
...Exeter Fishwick, D.B. 28 End 21 180 6-2 Glen Ridge Fisherty, J.P. 28 Tackle 23 195 5-11 Lawrenceville Foote, A.S. 28 Back 21 175 5-10 Andover Garvey, J.J. 29 Back 21 175 5-11 Roxbury Goodwine, Earle 28 Back 22 160 5-8 Hill Greene, W.W. 30 Guard 21 205 6-1 Lawreneeville Hall, N.S. 30 Guard 22 185 6 Roxbury Hall, R.A. 30 Back 21 189 5-9 Roxbury Hammersley, W.S. 28 Back 22 155 5-10 Andover Harvey, C.D. 28 Back 20 175 5-11 St. Mark's Hoben, J.J. 29 Back...
...Roman ethies. The present version is highly incomplete, so much so as to make little or no sense in placers, and even the most inoffensive passages have suffered clumsy and injudicious pruning. And, since an attempt to purify Petronius is much the same as preparing an edition of Fanny Hill for high school use, this version is at best, a sad, sad, business...
...present at the time, knows rightly whether, so to speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that he comes from Shemokin...
...never knew of Mr. Norton's acting from any other motive. He not only read out loud at home every evening; he offered every family in the land choice material for similar reading; every Sunday he read to the inmates of the Hospital for Incurables, not Tar from Shady Hill.... To describe Charles Eliot Norton in a single phrase, I should say, as he said of Emerson, that of all the men I have known, he made the strongest impression of consistent loftiness of character