Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented to France in May 1921 ''in return for the Statue of Liberty." Last week the schoolchildren's gift, an exciting 130-ft. granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge on its hill top at Meaux on the Marne, 30 miles from Paris. Present were solemn, long-mustached President Albert Lebrun of France, plump, genial Premier Edouard Herriot and a French audience so militant that two mentions of Aristide Briand (the late, great French Peace Man) were vociferously booed. Schoolchildren and monuments were...
...Matthew Hill, the "best" self-advertised Washington alumnus and political lieutenant for the former president, is no longer illegally receiving a monthly salary from State funds amounting to average salary paid for two regular instructors...
...which had vacant lots for skating in winter, tennis in the summer, Beasley's job as assistant manager had nothing to do with instruction. He took it upon himself to improve the calibre of Notlek tennis, was rewarded by an offer to become tennis coach at the Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, Ill. Said William Tatem Tilden II, when they met for the first time : "Beasley, there are two ways to get to the top. Be a wonderful player, which you cannot be; the other, study." Mercer Beasley, handicapped by poor eye sight, chose study. In 1928 he became...
...Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman F. L. Emerson, in whose honor it was named Enna Jettick. Enna Jettick did not get as far as Harbor Grace. In a snowstorm near Darby's Harbor, N. F. the engine failed. Pilot Solberg just missed crashing into a hill, plunked the ship down into Placentia...
George Washington Hill, tobacco tycoon, bought $2,500,000 life insurance through James Roosevelt, 25, eldest son of the Democratic presidential nominee...