Word: cay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number two contest Reese and Bramhall lost in three sets, as their smashing net game couldn't overcome the steadiness of their rivals. But in the number three doubles, the net game of Bacon and Hatton was good enough to beat Bowdoin's Tiny Taussig and Dick Cay...
...Court of Justice will review Guatemala's old claim that British Honduras is hers. Most citizens do not like the idea. Said one Edgar Gilbert Napier Gegg, a storekeeper: "In the momentous year of 1798 the question was settled decisively by the Battle of St. George's Cay" (in which a British flotilla defeated a Spanish squadron, assured British control of the coast). To show where they stood, the settlement's Loyal and Patriotic Order of Baymen revived last week the anniversary of the battle (which Guatemalans say never even occurred), celebrated it with speeches, horse racing...
Born. To Ben Hecht, 49, ace movie scribe, playwright (The Front Page), and Rose Cay lor Hecht, 45, onetime dramatist, his second wife: their first child, his second daughter, Jenny; in Manhattan. Weight...
Fourth-generation proprietor of Dildo Cay (pronounced key) and its salt works, Child-of-Nature Hayden parries civilized Miss Carroll's feral advances with reels of mumbo jumbo about the futility of woman's existence on the desolate cay. When he finally weakens, the best he can offer is: "We'd better fish...
Around southern Paraguay it is said that Tupá Mbaé cures gall stones with apeterebi, dysentery with anambai-guazú, internal hemorrhage with guabiyu-miru, hemophilia with caa pari miri, boils with ananga piri, syphilis with the poisonous milk of curupi-cay, many other afflictions with other local flora. Thousands of his patients have, beyond doubt, got well. Many orthodox physicians think that Tupá Mbaé has had something to do with it. The forests of southern Paraguay contain a rich pharmacopaeia which would bear looking into...