Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitney enthusiasm, but chiefly as an adjunct to polo and racing. Greentree is his polo team and he is a four-goal man, as good a back as hard-riding Pete Bostwick is a forward. Last summer he built a new field, carved out of the side of a hill on the Whitney place at Manhasset. L. I. Too heavy to ride his own steeplechasers in races, he rides to hounds, shoots, plays squash, flies his own cabin-plane, which was last year nearly destroyed by fire in its hangar at Roosevelt Field. The name of his plane- Pegasus...
Courses in the appreciative group are those given by Professors Hill and Ballantine. Beside the simple general courses, Music 3 and Music 4, additional courses are offered from time to time either in studies of the works of one man or of one nation...
This will be the fourth meet the team has entered this winter, the three previous ones being the Dartmouth Winter Sports Carnival, the Hohegebirge Club race, and the Harvard down-hill skiing championship held on February 26 under the auspices of the Mountaineering Club...
...American Scene" is the headline story of 1932. No attempt is made to plunge beyond or to deny superficiality. Mr. Hill plies with nimble grace about prominent folk, furbishing dull news monotones with sprightly adjectives and keen imaginative sense as to detail. Herbert Clark Hoover who found that there was "something wrong with the blueprints", Franklin Delano Roosevelt who would "rather walk than be president", "Humpty-Dumpty" Ivar Krauger of the "great fall", "Playboy" Jimmy of the "Primrose Path", Smith Reynolds "who had never quite got a grip on life", Dr. Rosenbach whose "little gold pencil flipped up" -- all these...
...glaring failure of this book, as is the case with so many of its kind, is the facility with which Mr. Hill relegates the movies, the stage, the radio, the opera, the fine arts, literature, and scientific advancements into a very hasty and carefully indefinite eighty pages. A book which depends for its very life on the value of incident can ill afford, for example, to devote only eight pages to the theater. The result is poignantly similar to the nightmare of a dramatic editor...