Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chill morning last week the ranking Democrats of Pennsylvania halted election celebrations to journey to a slag-piled hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian...
...attainder, a trial for high treason, a sentence of death. The kindness of the Lieutenant of the Tower was acknowledged, reproachfully, perhaps, by the gift of an inscribed copy of the English Prayer Book. With this as a last act, Lady Jane drew near the scaffold on Tower Hill, beholding on route the gory body of her husband, who had preceded her to the block. The execution took place, amidst popular lamentations, on the twelfth of February...
...Embassy. Swift is Ambassador Grew to exploit promising U. S. visitors for their country's good; and his Embassy plant, structure and personnel is one of the finest in the U. S. Foreign Service. Big as three city blocks, the diplomatic preserve in Tokyo rises in terraces up a hill once the property of the late, great Premier Ito, a hill violently shaken by the earthquake...
Completed three years ago at a cost of $1,250,000, the Embassy buildings, with their bases of steel gridirons, are positively earthquake proof. Let Tokyo heave and they might slide down the hill, but instead of collapsing they would "float" on the wavering sea of earth. L-shaped, the uncollapsible Embassy home is faced with white stucco, has a dining room in the left wing of the L, a living room in the right wing, a State staircase in the crotch. Of marble is the Ambassador's outdoor swimming pool and he may refresh himself and guests in three...
When Theodore Roosevelt rough-rode up San Juan Hill, Frank Richardson Kent was starting as a political reporter on the Baltimore Sim. Today this small, smart newshawk is one of the country's most famed commentators on political Washington. No key-hole gossip, he makes Democrats and Republicans alike quake with his breezy invective and the tart sagacity he packs into his daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is quoted from ocean to ocean. Yet until lately Frank Kent could be read in full nowhere except in the Baltimore...