Word: haye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he heard the East a-calling Harte responded with alacrity. Boston and Manhattan lionized him; he enjoyed it. But he acted like a flash in the pan: fell down on writing contracts, got into debt, antagonized lion-hunters. When Statesman John Hay once complained to Harte that he was short of funds, Harte replied: "Your own fault. Why did you fool away your money paying your debts?" When friends got him the job of U. S. commercial agent at Crefeld, Germany he took it gratefully, though it meant leaving his wife and family behind. He never rejoined them: from...
...Dallas, Tex., Joe Hay, Joe King, Joe Ark and Joe Wah Yee sought an injunction to keep Joe Chung. Joe Kay, Joe Yick and Joe Sin from interfering with the management of their Chinese restaurant...
Stanford is blessed with a campus nearly a thousand acres in extent--originally the farm of Senator Stanford-- which allows ample room for the university's 3500 odd students to wander happily about. Hay fields must be crossed when one goes from one living hall to another, to The Quad, or to the library...
...late spring of each year the hay crop is harvested, and all the hay piled in neat little stacks. At a given signal the freshman class rushes out and sets are to each and every little stack-- provided, of course, the campus cops lack the necessary strength or vigilance. Then, true to Stanford's symbol, the In- dian, all freshmen cavort merrily around the fires. In the end, the entire class faces an assessment, which is always paid without a murmur. It's just another tradition...
...unloaded revolver. Mr. Arno included no incident quite so funny in his Here Goes the Bride, which perhaps accounted for the fact that the show went into oblivion after seven performances, together, it was understood, with a sizeable amount of money amounting to six figures belonging to John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Long Is land sportsman...