Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murray Hill. Leslie Howard†† is so securely one of our best imported English light comedians that anything he is acting in comes already guaranteed. He is not, as yet, one of our' best playwrights and as far as this (his first effort) goes, the guarantee must be tempered with a hint that Murray Hill is only fairly funny. Mr. Howard has written of spinsters horrified by intoxicated men-about-town; of a will which promises golden future to a young man if he behaves. But he does not. There are two mixed identities and an urbane love...
Married. Elinor Dorrance, daughter of Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, president of the Campbell Soup Co., to Nathanial Peter Hill, grandson of the late onetime (1879-85) U. S. Senator Nathanial Peter Hill of Colorado...
...been by U. S. war vessels upon any Chinese port during the whole period of the present confused conditions along the Yangtze Valley. The firing at Nanking on March 24 by U. S. and British men-of-war consisted solely of a barrage laid about a house on a hill overlooking the city wall and in plain view from the river. In this house were the American Consul, his family, and some 25 other Americans and British, and this besieged party was being attacked and rushed by Chinese soldiers intent upon murdering them. This barrage not only saved the lives...
...Pittsburgh, the "Strip," the "Hill" and the "Soho" districts have never been pink-tea political neighborhoods. But it was a long time since they had crackled with electioneering gunshots as they did last week. Cars piled with ward heelers, toughs, thugs and rowdy touts plunged through the streets emitting angry pistol potshots. Detectives and police added to the confusion by kicking, clubbing, threatening with gas bombs and riot guns. When gunsmoke cleared, it was found that two innocent bystanders, aged 24 and 9, had been killed "by mistake" and several other persons wounded while the citizens of Pittsburgh were electing...
...Pinna's published a big advertisement calling themselves "Outfitters to 'Prep' School Students. . . ." Then they say "The leading 'prep' schools of the East have established standards of dress," and a lot more guff. Around the advertisement they put the school seals of Andover, Mercersburg, Pomfret, Choate, Groton, Lawrenceville, Exeter, Hill, St. Paul's, Taft and Hotchkiss. Where does De Pinna's get that stuff, calling these schools the leading "prep" schools of the East? Most of them are pretty good schools; I know fellows that go there. And how many fellows at Exeter, Andover, Mercersburg and Lawrenceville ever bought...