Word: hillses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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West Injdies. Last week the Caribbean suddenly became still under a windless sky. Seabirds wheeled inland, crying. Small boats with flapping, empty sails were sculled to harbor. On the Virgin Islands natives took to their homes in the hills, jabbered warnings to each other. Voodoo priests crept about selling charms...
Very placid is the river Housatonic as it winds through the Berkshire valleys. So even, so quiet is its flow that it is easily able to mirror the gentle, green elevations of ground which the Berkshire dwellers call hills, and which enthusiastic tourists like to call mountains. As gentle as...
The next day was John's 22nd birthday; love reached him from Brule. Mrs. Hills gave him a birthday party.
...Northampton, to the famed two-family house at 21 Massasoit St. The Coolidge housekeeper, Mrs. Alice Reckahn, had his dinner ready for him and sat with him while he ate. She told him how his Grandmother Goodhue was doing. After dinner he went along Massasoit Street to see the Hillses. Mrs. Hills is one of Mrs. Coolidge's few really intimate friends. Jack Hills was with John Coolidge at Amherst...
Married. Victoria Frelinghuysen, daughter of onetime Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of Manhattan and Far Hills, N. J., whose family has included four Sentors, whose great-great-grandfather served on Washington's staff and was a member of the Continental Congress; to John Grenville Bates Jr., member New York Stock...