Word: sillness
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...accompany the Senior Senator from Oklahoma to the White House. Thomas went and stayed all afternoon. . . . . . . Educated for the law, Thomas practiced not at all in Oklahoma-developed a summer resort at Medicine Park in the Wichita foothills near Lawton-made plenty money during the War when Fort Sill billeted 40,000 recruits and Medicine Park was the nearest playground. Not enthusing over the Senator's suggestion that this legislation may transfer $200,000,000,000 from those who hath to those who hath not, nor leading the claque for inflation, I still believe that Thomas deserves much credit...
...each case stopped it promptly by placing a piece of cardboard over the part of the pane where the bird saw its image Otherwise the bird will keep the struggle up until it drops. My brother-in-law tells me he sometimes finds blood on the sill at his country home in Los Gatos where towhees have beaten themselves insensible during his absence. It is cruelty to animals to permit this to go on, and the Humane Society of Kansas City should see that it is ended...
...Kent School crews, coached by Kent's priest-headmaster, Rev. Frederick H. Sill: races against Harvard's first and second 150-lb. boats; on the Housatonic River at Kent, Conn. Kent's senior boat, preparing for a trip to the British Henley Regatta this summer, won its race by four lengths, set a course record of 6:02.2 for the Henley distance (1 5/16...
Originator of the plan was Kent School's high-church headmaster, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, who coaches crew in his white cassock and sometimes, in black canonicals, substitutes as coxswain. Kent, the school in Connecticut's Berkshires where everybody does chores, was the first U. S. boarding school to send crews to the Henley Regatta. Last week Father Sill was wondering whether he should send a crew this year-because on June 15 the debt situation will be in a critical state. But British pedagogs soothed him: "We will not take it out on a schoolboy crew...
Present at the St. Paul's School meeting were such church leaders as Bishop John Thomson Dallas of New Hampshire, Headmaster Frederick Herbert Sill of Kent School, Headmaster George Gardner Monks of Lenox School, Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Boston.* Rev. C. Rankin Barnes of the Social Service Department of the Protestant Episcopal Church. There were young Episcopalians: Harold Bend Sedgwick. Harvard 1930; Martin Firth, Hobart 1930, who spoke on "Why I Am Going to the Mission Field"; Nathaniel ("Nat") Noble. Yale 1928, who told "Why I Am Going into the Ministry." With them met students from 20 colleges...