Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...document room, tucked away behind corridors, was hard to reach. Firefighters scaled the walls, fought the flames downward through the roof. Cameramen's flashlights added to the radiance of the scene. Senators. Congressmen, Justices of the Supreme Court hustled "up the hill" from dinner to see their workshop burn...
Willebrandt v. Hoover? On Capitol Hill, Senator Borah busied himself collecting data to support his charge against the Prohibition enforcement personnel "from top to bottom." Audible at the White House was a rumor that none other than Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, with a grudge against the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Mitchell, was supplying Senator Borah with his evidence for further assaults upon the Hoover administration's Dry record...
...been given the job of head Roman gladiator in the next Hollywood production of Ben Hur as the result of his meeting with the toppling tower of the Argentine, but that of opponent (one New York sports writer puts the "opponent" in quotes) of the Squire of Chestnut Hill in the big heavyweight setto of the year--well, that is surprising...
When war was declared Graves enlisted almost at once, got a commission in the famed line regiment, Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill: the only blot on its scutcheon was the surrender at Yorktown. In the Royal Welch the atmosphere was much the same as at Charterhouse: the regular officers resented and despised "outsiders." but discipline was perfect, morale high; they were pretty fighters...
...Graves married Nancy Nicholson, daughter of Painter William Nicholson. The wedding-cake icing was of plaster, on account of the shortage of sugar. The War over, Captain Graves and his wife (who still called herself by her maiden name) lived first at Harlech; then on Boar's Hill, outside Oxford, where they tried the disastrous experiment of keeping a shop; then at Islip, a village the other side of Oxford. Four children were born in these years. At Islip the parson made the great mistake of asking Hero Graves to read some of his poetry to the congregation. Hero...