Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resignation of Alfred Ernest Stearns as headmaster of Andover, though scarcely unforeseen, will startle the large army of youth which has passed over Andover Hill in the last quarter century. For his appointment in 1903 was one of those rare and happy incidents of fate that places a man exactly where he belongs. The Puritanic austerity which was his guise and the intense human sympathy which was his self combined before youthful eyes to make inevitable that apotheosis which though often lonely, is necessary to the unity and order of a large secondary school...
Died. Samuel Austin Kendall, 73, Representative-reject from Pennsylvania (Republican), good friend of Ambassador Mellon; by his own hand (pistol), in the House Office Building; in Washington, D. C. Reason: loneliness since his wife's death last August. He was the first Congressman suicide on Capitol Hill...
...move was a counterattack to stop the forward march of the Little Four-Brown & Williamson, Axton-Fisher, Larus & Brother, Continental Tobacco-makers of non-advertised 10?-a-pack brands. The Big Four used to make 90% of all U. S. cigarets and Lucky Strike's George Washington Hill, Camel's Samuel Clay Williams, Chesterfield's Clinton W. Toms, Old Gold's Benjamin L. Belt thought the future was fine and blue (TIME, Oct. 31). Now the Little Four with their Wings, Paul Jones, Twenty Grand, White Rolls sell one out of every five U. S. cigarets...
...Rockne," chanted a blonde in a streamlined yellow dress. By the Chevrolet exhibit stood a tall young man in the red costume and black busby of the Scots Guards. A cinema showed, while a voice told, how Studebakers can tumble down a hill, be righted and driven off; how they can hurtle over bumps without capsizing or breaking springs. A jacked-up Hupmobile lit with a clavilux raced against a pastoral landscape conveying a dreamlike blonde who pretended to shift gears and then stared at the crowd, not replying to youths, flushed by dinner, who requested a ride. A horrible...
...weeks ago appeared in the Press an appeal from Anthony J. Buttitta of Durham, N. C. for the names & addresses of subscribers to Contempo, a literary magazine (TIME, Jan. 2). Mr. Buttitta said he had moved Contempo from Chapel Hill, N. C., had lost the subscription list in transit. Last week a frantic protest was issued by Milton A. Abernethy of Chapel Hill who said he was the sole proprietor of Contempo; that it had not been moved anywhere; that the one & only subscription list was safe in Chapel Hill; that Mr. Buttitta, onetime co-publisher, was a humbug...