Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because our studio telephones have been cut off," shouted Senor Ramon Perez, "we have moved to the power station on Mixcoac Hill. We shall continue to broadcast without food or sleep until the Ericsson Telephone Co. pays us 13,000 pesos for three months' back pay! We represent 62 Station XEAL employes! The orchestra will now play 'Carioca...
...catalogue estimates of laboratory hours. Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty-four. Then there were the fourteen minutes consumed by the taxi driver in taking the Vagabond from Harvard Square to Smith Halls (obs.) via Shady Hill. Total, thirty-eight minute. Thirty-eight. Nineteen hundred thirty eight, class of. Incredible...
When she was 66, Patty Smith Hill was professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia, a recognized authority on child education. Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House and As Thousands Cheer, starring Marilyn Miller (later, Dorothy Stone) and Clifton Webb, had Broadway by the ears. In one of this revue's most popular skits Clifton Webb appears as John D. Rockefeller Sr. while his children and grandchildren dance about him offering him a birthday cake and Rockefeller Center as a birthday present. They sing...
...Cheer, last week found himself the defendant in a Federal plagiarism suit asking payment of $250 for each and every performance of the song. If As Thousands Cheer closes on schedule the first week in September the grand total demanded will be $100,750 for 403 performances. Lyricist Patty Hill, who will share in the damages, if any, had no complaint to make on the use of the words because she long ago resigned herself to the fact that her ditty had become common property of the nation...
...were forbidden to carry firearms. They got their sustenance with bow & arrow. When after two years they returned to civilization, Maurice Thompson went to Indiana, wrote books on archery. Will Thompson went to Seattle, wrote his famed "The High Tide at Gettysburg," became attorney for Railroad Tycoon James J. Hill. Together, with Maurice for president, Will for champion, they founded the National Archery Association which last week held its 54th annual tournament at Storrs, Conn...