Word: hayes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith, who slept on a home-sized bed next to him, Seabiscuit occupied one third of the 80-foot horse car* Owner Howard had chartered (for $1,500) for the trip. He watched the scenery through his car windows, walked around for exercise, was carefully fed only water and hay lest he get trainsick. Unlike most thoroughbreds, who are so nervous that they sleep standing up, Seabiscuit relaxed on the hay-covered floor and slept most of the time...
...into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. The seven men with their scriptures walked back to the pulpit. Drawing out the lots, the bishop saw that the first three were blank, and to three candidates he said: "Thou art free." To the fourth, a hay & feedstore employe named Franklin L. Alderfer, he said, noting that the slip bore writing: "Thou art chosen." Brother Alderfer wept...
...flood receded and equally damaging Recession mounted, Zoopark found its cupboard bare. For three weeks, while drowned animals were buried and wrecked cages repaired, the park had no revenue. Animals were first cut to half rations, then to one third. Ribs began to show. Anna May sickened on mildewed hay. Babe the polar bear became too listless to sway. The Zoo's gaunt camel was too weak to get up off its knees. Said Manager William J. Richards, who had worked a year without salary to make ends meet: "The flood was what broke the camel's back...
...first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought the cheering prospect that for the first time Zoopark would have not only horsemeat and hay for its animals but leftover gravy for its treasury...
...just within the realms of possibility that he will restore not only Mr. Bolton but enough other Republicans to give his party a House majority. In that case little Joe Martin, who talks with a down-East accent, lives in an unpretentious bachelor apartment at the Hay-Adams House, would presumably become Republican Floor Leader to succeed Bert Snell who would move up to the Speakership. No one expects anything of this sort to happen this year. But how close Joe Martin can come to making it happen is, despite all the palaver of its more famed idealists...