Word: haye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote Smyth. This valley needs man power. There are farming opportunities here for energetic, ablebodied, willing workers. . . . Climate similar to that of Denver, elevation 5,280, to that of Salt Lake City, elevation 4,300 ft. (elevation my home 4,777) Bees, turkeys, hogs, sheep, cattle, hay, grain do very well. I can supply two families with land and irrigation water...
...jingo editors, and bursting with nationalism, America was on the outlook for new foreign markets. Cleveland's Venezuela message in 1895 provided the spark for a conflict, but, Baxter said, "the crisis cleared the air." Instead of war England talked of conciliation, and in 1897 the charm of John Hay, ambassador to Great Britain, served to improve relations...
...this has given Harold Stassen an unparalleled chance to make hay. A more energetic campaigner than bespectacled Governor Benson, he has covered 20,000 Minnesota miles in his car, bellowing into a back seat dictaphone between speeches. He makes as many as four in one evening, always scurries to the back of the hall to pump the hand of each departing listener...
Dealing with the story of an American woman who predominates a roll in the hay with Lord Howe so that Washington's troops may receive support and retreat, Lewis Meltzer's play meanders through two dull acts, rears its head for a final gasp in the third, and then dies a miserable death...
...comes from a popular I.W.W. song, The Preacher and the Slaves: . . . Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie, in the sky, When you die- It's a lie! The song, written by Joe Hill (executed for murder in 1915) and sung to the tune of In the Sweet Bye and Bye, was intended to counteract Salvation Army propaganda, reflects orthodox radical agnosticism...