Word: hills
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pointed out that windows which usually look like ugly black holes, become invisible in a black building. By putting orange shades on the windows of the Daily News Building he used them as a part of a vertical motif of alternating white and reddish stripes. His blue-green McGraw-Hill Building was almost all window. With Harvey Wiley Corbett and Benjamin Wistar Morris he was an architect for Rockefeller Center. He rejoiced that the average life of a Manhattan skyscraper is only 20 years because it gave architects "a chance to experiment...
When she was 25 Patty Smith Hill was running a model kindergarten in Louisville, Ky. Grover Cleveland was President and Lillian Russell was the talk of Broadway. One day, Patty Hill's sister, Mildred, wrote a jingling little tune to which Patty fitted words. They published the song, copyrighted it, and sometimes Patty Hill would sing thus to her kindergarten children...
When his plump-cheeked wife got the news in the London suburb of Forest Hill, she gave regal audience to newshawks: "I intend to take my responsibilities as Queen seriously. My two sons are excited at the idea that they are now Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker...
...meter free style: Olive McKean 1-mi. free style: Lenore Kight 3-meter springboard diving: Katherine Rawls 220-yd. backstroke: Alice Bridges 440-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 880-yd. free style : Lenore Kight 220-yd. breast stroke: Ann Govednik Platform diving: Dorothy Poynton Hill 300-meter medley: Katherine Rawls
That was in New Orleans in 1920. Next spring Los Angeles police stopped John Cudney's meetings on "Miracle Hill" because lepers were mixing with the crowds. But his Los Angeles sponsor, Mrs. Ella Farley, had already cleaned up with picture postcards of him at 25? each and her brother had cleared $4,000 on the "Miracle Hill" soda pop concession. U. S. postal authorities continued to permit thousands of handkerchiefs to be sent to him for blessing, because he made no charge...