Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slapped at Dictators Hitler and Mussolini, and by implication has frowned upon Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of "appeasing" Fascism. Instead of being told that they should revamp their views to fit Washington's, they persuaded the President to leave foreign policy out of his Chapel Hill speech (TIME, Dec. 12), and further to soften his democratic dander last week...
...person coming down at trail or a steep hill obviously out of control used to be an object of amazement to the onlookers," he said. "But nowadays, people just look at him disgustedly and class him as a damn fool...
...person who likes long-lasting excitement and an endurance test, there are the long trails with their mountain climbing and down-hill running...
From the lyrical description of "Saltwater Farm," Coffin has turned to a portrayal of those Maine people who "still live by the skin of their teeth, on wind-pudding and small potatoes and few on a hill. They live by the weather and their wits. They come to sudden conclusions. They 'up and do things' that are for once and for all," as he describes them in his introduction. With the simplest of words and rhyme, Coffin attempts in this little volume to draw these folk, their acts, and lives that snuff out with a brief, "flourish of finality" pathetic...
Better luck attended the limelight performance of Voit Gilmore, 20, chairman of the nonpartisan, undergraduate Carolina Political Union (and president of his Chi Psi chapter). He began working last summer to get the foremost U. S. political orator of the age down to Chapel Hill to address his group, which prides itself on paying no honorariums and on cross-questioning its speakers when they are through. His college president, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, Senators Josiah Bailey and Bob Reynolds, Representative Bob Doughton and officials of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped...