Word: sills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which appeared all the evidences of a well-spent evening, even to a tempting-looking lemon rind in one of the glasses. In the way of wall hangings the decorator had draped a tapestry over the bulletin board, and above it in a neat row along the window-sill were arranged the contents of a well-stocked library. The personal touch in these decorations had been achieved by the presence of a sponge doggy peering down from the mail...
...British concern accepted it first. It was the rage in every London music-hall before a New York house would gamble on it. Even then few copies were sold here until the U. S. entered the War. Then regimental band-masters seized on it. In Oklahoma's Fort Sill thousands of raw recruits began to swelter to it. In Massachusetts' Devens thousands more shivered to it. Camp Gordon's men shaved to it, groomed horses to it, built roads to it. They sang it whether they wanted to or not. The Government's morale-boosters made...
...from the old gentleman. While they were talking, a loud knock announced the arrival of Inspector King of the Nassau County police, summoned thither by the reporter. "Aren't you Mr. Harriman?" he demanded abruptly. "No, I am Mr. Thomas," was the reply. But lying on the window sill was a hat bearing the initials "J. W. H." on the sweatband. Noting this, the Inspector strode from the room, telephoned the Manhattan police...
...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...
...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...