Word: haye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...using her as a rubber stamp that he may be rehabilitated through the criminal element of the state. Jim Ferguson knows that he can never be elected to office again and that two years will close the political career of Mrs. Ferguson, and he is doubtless 'making hay while the sun shines.' Is Jim Ferguson the unseen agent that acts before the pardon board for the criminals and then sits at the right hand of 'Miladi' while she signs on the dotted line? Talk about high finance. Somebody, somewhere down the line must be getting lots...
Were such salaries paid, many men of intellect now preoccupied with the details of business, law or war, could withdraw from active life and lend their minds, unharassed, to the service of human thought-men like Elihu Root, John Hay, Admiral Mahan, Steinmetz. Scholarship would come into its heritage; universities would be dignified. "Our typical 'University' of today would gradually find its place in the new system. Perhaps no great harm comes from assembling these vast crowds of healthy, noisy, young people. Let them enjoy themselves. But why miscall such a place of rendezvous a university...
...neglected the formality of obtaining a passport. She ' never sang better (which is not saying so much) and she never danced better (which is saying everything). She seems to enjoy herself during working hours as does no other actress. Her assisting celebrities are Jack Donahue (funny), Clifton Webb, Mary Hay, Joseph Cawthorn, Dorothy Francis, Pert Kelton (new and welcome), Jerome Kern (who wrote the music), Olsen's Band (who play it), and Ukelele...
...this play from England was easily the sovereign event. As a corollary of this, Noel Coward, playwright and actor, is the week's first personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town?Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...
...enchanted by American sunshine. General Sherman wrings his hand in St. Louis; General Lee's daughters charm him in Louisville. At Denver there is a rat-hunt in the dining-room; at Salt Lake City, Brigham Young's brave theatre and stone water-conduits; at Washington, John Hay "and his friend Henry Adams...