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...once-fashionable Brooklyn, N. Y. With the shift of social tides, the Misses Ely-Elizabeth, Sara and Mary Boies (deceased)- had removed to Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Jews had encroached, apartment houses had towered. In 1906 the school had migrated to its final resting place on a green Connecticut hilltop. Now it lay in ashes, the ashes of $1,500,000, of which only a $500.000 phoenix would arise in insurance. Parents with daughters in need of finishing, friends of all that is genteel and established in private education, waited to see if the Ely sisters, now in their age, would...
President von Hindenburg, attired as a feldmarschall, spent the week at, that picturesque Württemberg spa, Bad Mergentheim, sallied forth daily to watch the maneuvres with Defense Minister Gessler and General von Seeckt. From a hilltop Old Paul von Hindenburg watched in high good humor the game which he once played in such deadly earnest. On the hilltop with him stood a U. S. and a Soviet Russian military observer...
...first you could see them. Then you could not. Suddenly again the first horse was apparent, a flying neck with a man hunched against it; the field stood clear for a moment, then active silhouets on the hilltop. They were lost again, in the rain-shapes of fog, flying to no destination more real than the unknown termination of a myth. What horse was leading? It might be Sir Abe Bailey's Lex, an entry which Lady Astor gave the miners in South Wales as a tip to win. It might be Colorado,* the favorite on which a total...
...Meeting. The scene of the demonstration was a sunny hilltop near Fairmont. First there was a parade of men, women, children with placards "The Coal Operators May Evict Us from Our Homes, but They Can't Enslave Us," "Our Husbands are Honest-to-God Union Men," "We are Proud of our Union Daddies...
...following books have been added to the library of the Union during the month of February: Lyman Abbott, "Reminiscences"; Mildred Aldrich, "A Hilltop on the Marne"; M. Anesaki, "Buddhist Art"; Arnold Bennett, "These Twain"; John Jay Chapman, "Greek Genius," and "Memories and Milestones"; Winston Churchill, "A Far Country"; Frank Danby, "Nelson's Legacy"; M. Lucien Descaver, "The Colour of Paris"; Arthur Elson, "The Book of Musical Knowledge"; St. John G. Ervine, "Eight O'clock"; A. D. Ficke, "The Man on the Hilltop"; Carl R. Fish, "American Diplomacy"; Richard Le Gallienne, "Vanishing Roads"; John Galsworthy, "The Freelands"; N. V. Gogol, "Dead...