Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati, moppets ran home from the Bond Hill School with excited tales that their friends who whispered during a fourth grade play rehearsal had had their mouths taped shut by Teacher Norma Allen. When parents protested, the school's Acting Principal Marie Dachenbach declared that the whisperers had penitently affixed the tape themselves, at blameless Teacher Allen's suggestion...
...Iowa Hill, Calif., because Wilbur Randall planned to put a frisky frog under the school bell, then twisted the arm of a younger pupil who threatened to tattle, Teacher Leona George, 63, marched down the aisle, separated her quarreling charges. From a brief scuffle Wilbur Randall emerged with both his eyes blacked. Afterward he told his mother, a school trustee, that Teacher George had struck him with the bell. Teacher George was haled before the district attorney and the county superintendent of schools. She insisted that Wilbur's wound was accidental, but grimly admitted to having once whipped...
Family. No less startling than the effect which cinema success has had on Shirley Temple is the effect Shirley Temple's success has had on her family. The Temples have already moved once since Shirley became famed. They are now building a new house which has a hill on one side and a wide lawn on the other to prevent Shirley's admirers from pressing their noses against the windows at odd hours. Mrs. Temple gets some $500 a week for spending the days with her daughter...
Last week Ernest R. ("Pop") Haselwood looked like a good bet against the field. Bus Transportation, McGraw-Hill trade journal, was tabulating returns in its contest, not to be decided until late this year, to discover who is the safest bus driver in the U. S. Owen Meredith of Enid. Okla. drove 976,800 miles without scratching a fender. Ancel Mistier of Sedalia, Mo. turned up with a no-accident record of 950,000 miles. But "Pop" Haselwood of Chappell, Neb. in 20 years had driven 1,772,651 miles without a ''chargeable" accident. Driver Haselwood...
This week not only those Price bondholders who deposited their securities with Banker McGregor but even those who held off will be able to turn in paper for cash on the line. Banker McGregor lives in fancy Chestnut Hill outside Boston, is fiftyish, greying, handsome. New Hampshire-born of his family's eighth generation in this country, he went early to work for Harris, Forbes & Co., became its president in 1930. Now out of investment banking, he takes up his time with golf, directorships, an occasional reorganization, lays the blame for his partial leisure upon...