Word: hay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Limited Emergency." Franklin Roosevelt meantime made much hay of the Neutrality which he had. He busily divided its enforcement between Treasury, Army & Navy and other departments (see p. 22). Attorney General Frank Murphy for the newsreels spoke tensely of spies and of every patriot's duty. Federal legalites searched the Constitution and the statutes for special powers...
Britain's first air-raid scare produced two flatly conflicting stories passed through the censor to the U. S. before the War Office's own propaganda agency (under oldtime Hackwriter Ian Hay) got out the third or "official version" (see p. 15). Foreign correspondents were driven into a frenzy by the slow and clumsy handling of news of the torpedoing of the Athenia; Britain's feat-of-the-week, the bombings of German naval bases, was announced as laconically as the results of target practice; in line with British belief that false hopes should not be raised...
...Fresh milk costs 25? per quart, bread usually 25? per loaf, gasoline 35? per gallon, imported timothy hay $75 per ton, local hay...
Japanese spinsters, too, are making hay. Hundreds of them have been hired by the Government as Peeping Thomasinas. Some of them loiter around the luxury counters of department stores, taking notes on their sisters who squander yen on beauty creams instead of patriotically investing in Government bonds. Other, luckier maidens, steal at dusk to vantage points near geisha-houses, machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip...
...racehorse people what Ascot is to the English, Longchamp to the French, Melbourne to the Australians. Saratoga can be as hot as the Sahara in August. Its hotels are great grotesque relics of the Mauve Decade with creaking elevators and hard beds. Its natives are openly out to make hay while the sun shines...