Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poet Masefield has often confessed that the excitement of strong emotion is his chief aid in producing poetry, but the excitement must be definitely nonmechanical. To escape the sound of airplanes flying over his home at Boar's Hill, Oxford he moved this year into the countryside of Gloucestershire (TIME, Jan. 2). Sadly last week the Poet Laureate summed up: "Poets have begun to think they are no longer wanted by the world. Poetry has been separated from the heart of the world...
...Beatrice Gottlieb, 1-handicap golfer of Tuckahoe, N. Y.: an 18-hole match against the Prince of Wales; 5 & 4; at Coombe Hill, England. Vastly pleased and perturbed at being the first woman golfer to beat the Prince, Miss Gottlieb gave him one of her iron clubs which he fancied, got a box of balls and an autographed scorecard in return...
Filled with the hurry of the evening traffic Beacon Street runs on, past the Hill invaded by the Celtic horde, over its same worn brick way. In the twilight comes a glimpse, through the drawn shades, of the Bulfinch drawing rooms, and of the scrubbed and shining faces of the matrons, filled with the light of the Boston Transcript. Closed to the Boston, which is now Greater, is a world, a complete world, sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and -- sans End. Turn down an empty Glass! Or so we read in the magazines...
...Thursday afternoon, to be run off every ten minutes starting at 3.30 o'clock. On this day Russell Codman '19, prominent Boston business man, will be referee and starter, and his place will be taken a Friday by James Roosevelt, a Cambridge resident and former Harvard oarsmen. Dwight Bradford Hill '08, Boston engineer, will be the timer, James McCrae, of the Harvard Athletic Association, will be a judge of the finish, and Jack Hartnett '28, clerk of the course. On Friday, N. Henry Black '96, director of the Summer School, will act as honorary referee, and will present the silver...
Schulte, United Cigar, Liggett and most small dealers joined in the price-upping, hoped that Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. would see fit to follow. Tobacco men believed that the move had at least the tacit approval of Mr. Hill who, believing he has the 10-centers licked, is reported to be pondering a boost in the wholesale price...