Word: hayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calm his jumping rage at what he considered the gratuitous insults of the British Government, the Duke tried violently mowing hay on the chateau grounds, soon gave it up to sip tea under the shade trees of the terrace...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's three-year-old race horse Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the Withers Stakes, feature race of the week at Long Island's Belmont Park; by two lengths, with Charing Cross second. Morning before the race, Flying Cross, owned by Jock Whitney's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney, and also entered in the Withers, fell dead of heart failure while being exercised...
United Artists' liveliest members are David Selznick, Walter Wanger and Sam Goldwyn in Hollywood, Alexander Korda in London. In New York last week for conferences were Producers Selznick and Korda, and Producer Selznick's chief backer, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Chief problem before Selznick International was still: who will play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind? Last week Producer Selznick failed to substantiate a rumor that Rhett had been assigned to an obscure American actor discovered in British cinema named Ken Duncan. Backer Whitney's wife, Philadelphia's sprightly onetime...
...Roman Governor, now thoroughly alarmed, waited watchfully. "Nero's" rule, at first wildly popular, grew into hated tyranny as "Nero's" hangers-on, whom Varro found it harder & harder to control, made hay by killing and confiscating right & left. By the time Cejonius was removed from his post and a new Governor came out from Rome with enough troops to stamp out the rebellion, "Nero's" government was collapsing from its own rottenness. Crafty Varro did not wait to gloat over Cejonius' downfall or to see what became of his puppet. He took refuge with...
...game. He rarely rented the horse to his customers, keeping her mostly for himself and sometimes letting June Ebdom, a 15-year-old neighbor girl, take her out for exercise. After a few months Horseman Loudoux noticed Nightingale's middle beginning to swell, dismissed it as hay belly, a common winter affliction of horses...