Word: hayes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passengers and mail were to be transferred at each port of call. No exclusive news privileges, such as the Hearst agencies formerly enjoyed, were given. Three "repeating" passengers, had made previous Graf flights, appeared on the roster: Hearst correspondents Karl H. von Wiegand and Lady Grace Drummond Hay, George Grouse of Syracuse, N. Y.† Noteworthy in the present cruise is the equator-crossing, the first to be made by a dirigible since the German RL-59 flew to East and Central Africa during the World War. In anticipation of the buoyant effect of tropical heat, Commander Eckener added heavily...
Born. To Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, Daughter Joan of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney, sister of Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; a daughter...
Shaun Goilin is an eccentric horse. He will not eat hay, oats, or bran when away from home, accepts only delicacies offered by a friend's hand. All he had to eat on the day of the race was an apple his trainer gave him on the way to the post...
...long, wavering line-41 horses, with their boys in colored silks-broke suddenly and swept forward toward the first jump. They were over safely, hard to see against a patch of mist that touched the corner of the course. At Valentine's Brook, Sir Lindsay, John Hay Whitney's horse, was over first, with Shaun Goilin (pronounced Shahn Goy-lin), right after him. At the open ditch, Gate Book went down and Gregalach, one of the favorites since Easter Hero was scratched, screwed sideways in the air, landed clear but had to be pulled up. He was down...
Poet Carl Sandburg, onetime roustabout, hay pitcher, milkwagon driver, stove polisher, house painter, soldier (in the Spanish-American War in Porto Rico with the 6th Illinois Volunteers), newspaperman, is 52, married (he has three daughters), lives in Elmhurst, Ill. Long-haired, lanky-limbed, seamed of face, he likes to recite poetry, sing folk songs, while he accompanies himself on his guitar. Says he: "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Other books: Chicago Poems, Corn Huskers,' The Chicago Race Riots, Smoke and Steel, Slabs of the Sunburnt West, Rootabaga Stones, Rootabaga-Pigeons, Abraham Lincoln...