Word: hilltop
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...woman gave birth in a street car. In Wilkes-Barre two were delivered in rescuing Army trucks. In Brunswick, Me., as his wife and newborn son were rowed safely from their flooded home, grateful Emilien Racine named the child Moses. In Johnstown 653 people took refuge in a hilltop dance hall. Soon there were...
When the play's big moment comes, the curtain parts to reveal a snowy New England hilltop, winterset and blue-white under cold bright stars. Ethan (Raymond Massey) climbs to the top of it, his boots actually squeaking in the glittery surface. Pathetic little Mattie (Ruth Gordon) lies down on the sled with him and, with a whistle of wind, they vanish over the far side of the slope. How they maim themselves, instead of smashing out their lives on the big tree at the bottom as they intended, is told in an epilog...
...spicing up his speeches with songs by the Yacht Club Boys, Rubinoffs fiddling. Before long Dick Powell wins the party nomination, campaigns successfully with speeches guaranteed not to last more than 30 seconds and with such songs as Thanks a Million, I'm Sittin' High on a Hilltop, I've Got a Pocket Full of Sunshine...
First correspondent in Ethiopia, and first to die, was the Chicago Tribune's able Wilfred Courtenay ("Will") Barber, 31, who reached the country in June, sickened month ago in the "yellow hell" of Ogaden. Last week he died of tertian malaria, nephritis and influenza, was buried on a hilltop in Addis Ababa...
Promptly at midnight the Pontchartrain's lights went out and the boat vanished in the night. On the hilltop slick-haired, thin-lipped Captain Lawrence L. Clayton of the U. S. Army Signal Corps and a sergeant bent over an apparatus of which the handful of witnesses, mostly newsmen, could make out little except the vague outline of a cylinder and the dim flicker of electric bulbs. Synchronized with the mechanism was an 800,000,000 candlepower Sperry searchlight mounted on a truck a few feet away...