Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afraid, let him come out of the tall ragweed and hay belt. I myself will go out to New Rochelle to hear him but not to Colorado! JOHN B. BENNETT
Died. Mary Garrett Hay, 71, famed New York suffragist & prohibition pioneer; of heart disease; in New Rochelle, N. Y. For 30 years she had made her home with her coworker, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt...
...Senator James A. Reed was thwarted in his presidential ambitions, he said he was through with politics-but not quite. He wanted to name his successor in the Senate. He picked a Wet named James A. Collet. He compared Candidate Collet's opponent, a Dry named Charles Martin Hay, to Alabama's buffoon Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. But Missouri voters, last week, gave Senator Reed a farewell rebuke and gave the Democratic nomination to Mr. Hay, who is neither handsome, eloquent nor blatant. In school, Mr. Hay was bright. In St. Louis, he is a lawyer...
...Republicans nominated Roscoe C. Patterson to oppose Mr. Hay for Reed's seat...
Naomi and Joe are forbidden to "keep company," but they meet by the starbright brook, and plan to marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook...