Word: hayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horsedrawn Hay Rakes...
Jack Oakie (Lewis Delaney Offield) was born in Sedalia, Mo. His Scotch mother was a schoolteacher; his Irish father was in the hay business. The family moved to Manhattan and Oakie went to school at De La Salle High, left school to be a telephone clerk for a brokerage house, left brokerage to be a chorus boy in Innocent Eyes. He took funny bit-parts in several revues, then went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Wesley Ruggles who cast him for nothing much in Finders Keepers. Critics picked him out, Paramount put him on contract, recently made...
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...recent years a burden. It was after the death in 1881 of Editor Josiah Gilbert Holland (cofounder with Roswell Smith) that Century reached the zenith of its editorial command. Then, under Editor Richard Watson Gilder, it scored its journalistic triumph with the serial life of Lincoln, by Nicolay & Hay, and a Civil War battle series written by the most important participants. Circulation reached its peak of 150,000 in 1906. Followed a gentle but inexorable decline which not even energetic Editor Glenn Frank (now president of University of Wisconsin) could completely check...
Engaged. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 24, sportsman son of the late Sportsman Payne Whitney; and Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Dobson Altemus Eastman. Marriage date: early in September...