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Word: hills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says, Lillian Gibson, a Tennessee hill-girl of 15, went to school at Stump Valley, near Shelbyville, started home from school- later her teacher said she came running frantically back . . . screaming, "I am going to have a baby." This is absolutely untrue, in that this little girl does not live in the hills-not a Tennessee hill-girl. There is no such school as "Stump Valley." The teacher never made the statement that the little girl said, "I am going to have a baby." These statements are untrue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1935 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...hereby cancel my subscription . . . and also the subscription sent you ... as a Christmas present to Mrs. R. C. Grant, 286 Chestnut Hill Avenue, Allston (or Brighton) Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1935 | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...voice is rich and clear. He plays and sings with his eyes closed, taps single time with one foot, triple with the other. He claims that most of his songs are his own. He sang about when "me and a bunch of cowboys had that famous battle on Bunker Hill," and again about the Negro who "throwed his jelly* out of the window.' The minstrel was proudest when he chanted the petition which won him his first pardon. The refrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Murderous Minstrel | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...sojourn in Washington during the Christmas recess revealed to the writer that things have changed since the days of Coolidge prosperity. For one thing, newspapermen now hang out around the White House rather than Capitol Hill. There's no news on the Hill. In the halls of the Capitol, it is said that Congressmen plead with newspapermen to tell them what the dope is over at the White House. "What bill are we going to advocate." the Chairman of a prominent House Committee is reputed to have asked a reporter. "I know you've just spoken to the President...

Author: By El Ham., | Title: State of the Union | 1/11/1935 | See Source »

Opening the winter term game series with a record of three victories to one defeat behind it, the Freshman stickmen will clash with Newton High School this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Boston Garden. The Harvard team has defeated Framingham High 13-0, Belmont Hill 7-0, and Belmont High 7-1, its only defeat having been inflicted by Mt. St. Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Face Newton High Stickmen This Afternoon | 1/9/1935 | See Source »

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