Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays, Mrs. Rebecca N. Hill, reputedly the oldest member of the D.A.R., 104; Nicholas Murray Butler, 70; David Pinski, Jewish playwright, 60; Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester, 32; S. S. Europa...
...mesothorium (another radioactive substance). The dope eased the arm pain, braced Byers up. He enthusiastically recommended it to friends, sent them cases of it, even gave some to one of his horses. Last week Eben Byers died in Manhattan of radium poisoning. His close friend Mrs. Mary F. Hill of Pittsburgh died last autumn of the same cause. Other of his friends are gravely worried...
...mountain cabin on $575 a year, with a woman and six children to keep-and maybe be neighborly and take in a half-dozen extra ones when their parents die. In the three-room cabin there is no heat but from the fireplace, no window, no plumbing. The hill woman is much in childbirth. After six or eight children she may die. The mountaineer takes a second woman, perhaps a third. What becomes of the many young ones, whose blood is of the purest...
...torment, but he will not allow her. After nis crazed brother hangs himself, Thurso gets Helen to cart him, sodden with pain, up to a sea promontory. There, in a quarry shed, she surprises him with kisses, cuts his throat. When the old mother comes up the hill she finds Helen poisoned, dying. She has eaten the contraceptive pills she used to prevent more life. The old mother, too tough herself for any hawk's beak to tear, is left squatting on her sorrows as on a pile of cracked and pithless bones...
...Jeffers' intention to live in Europe was thwarted by the War. Looking for a place to live they came on the spot where Hawk Tower and Tor House now stand: ''When the stagecoach topped the hill . . . and we looked down through pines and sea-fogs on Carmel Bay, it was evident that we had come without knowing it to our inevitable place...