Word: valee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which San Francisco's substantial families survey the Golden Gate. On its upper slopes a social scion (Lester Vail) becomes engaged to a cinemactress (Katherine Wilson) who, unknown to him, has climbed the hill from a bordello. Seven years have done much to make her forget that dark vale, but when she meets the most aggressive of her former swains, he nearly sends her hurtling down again. Failing that, he forces her to tell her history to her fiance. You are very much afraid that the pleasant fellow will overlook the girl's bad past, which is exactly...
...Vale Kvale...
Harvard, 26; Vale...
...Other Anson G. Phelps descendants include: Anson Phelps Stokes, former Secretary of Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...
...planned his campaign against Oxford, is as sweet a village as any in England. Wood Eaton, sleeping beside a little stream that winds in and out of coppices and fields; and going farther in this direction one comes to Islip, Noke, the grand sweep of Otmoor, and the leafy vale of the Thame. Going north from Oxford, one can visit Woodstock and stately Blenheim; or, if one is awed by this great place, one can turn a little to the west to the pretty villages and rich hills and vales watered by the Evenlode. Following the winding roads and hedges...