Word: hayes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreed finally that they would go this week. To each U. S. correspondent Hore-Belisha was introduced separately by amiable Novelist Ian Hay, public relations counsel for the War Office, to each he said a few pleasant words. Then on to the Air Ministry the newsmen trooped, took tea and whiskey with Sir Kingsley Wood while pretty girl-members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force offered cakes and sherry...
...lyrics, Hay tries to show up the "human sham" by making candid modern mention of it. But since her verses proclaim the sham "natural" they merely give publicity to what they set out to expose...
THIS MY LETTER-Sara Henderson Hay -Knopf...
Natural Sham. A typical compilation of 1939 magazine-verse is Sara Henderson Hay's This My Letter. Its author herself is typical of the many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree...
...Hay writes her verse-as a considerable public will also read it-as a breather from sitting pretty. No cynic but a broad-minded wincer at spiritual unhappiness, Hay tries to reconcile religious reverence for life's possibilities with lay disappointment in its facts...