Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading Thayer's Life and Letters of John Hay, I notice that both Hay and Nicolay used your favorite term, "Tycoon," as an affectionate nickname for President Lincoln. Do you know of any earlier use of the word...
...plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes at neutral, take their hands off the controls, fold their arms and apathetically wait...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Winston Guest of Long Island with Eric Pedley and Elmer J. Boeseka Jr. of California prevented the college-boy Old Aikens, green-shirted national junior champions (TIME, Aug. 5), from becoming the year's outstanding U. S. polo team. by galloping through them, 18 goals to 8, in the final of the Waterbury Cup matches at Meadow Brook. Both teams were put out early in the open championship, won last fortnight by Irish Captain C. T. I. Roark's four...
...which followed him from the Philippines, is in the White House stable. He, "Master William Hamilton Bones," in the care of Private John Hale, U. S. A., is reported to chew the blackest plug tobacco, which accounts for the brownness of his whiskers, to eat the horse's hay, to sit up on his haunches and "speak" in goatish gutturals...
...them went plenty of food, 12 quarts of Philadelphia whiskey, six quarts of Philadelphia brandy, freight, letters including one on Edgar Allan Poe's 1844 newspaper hoax that a flying machine had crossed the Atlantic in three days. The Hearst people remained behind. Mr. von Wiegand rested. Lady Drummond-Hay cuddled to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Thomas Leftbridge, who had just reached Manhattan from London. They found her "two shades darker than she was before she started . . . handsomer than ever." Sir George Hubert Wilkins hurried to Cleveland and shyly married Suzanne Bennett, actress, in a justice of the peace...