Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate--Mr. Mencken notwithstanding--is usually a man. So while the logs leap into flame or the tries to make them, his wonder becomes fused into a definite inquiry: why, after all, is he here, looking so very glum while the sun shines on other fields and making hay is so delightfully easy...
Copley--"The Sport of Kings", at 8.20: Lan Hay's excellent comedy of gambling, racing, and betting, caught in full flight from London to New York...
...minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed by a commission of grammarians and field in the archives of the department...
...been their fates. One sits as Chief Justice; another, Elihu Root, is dean of U. S. statecraft; another, Truman Handy Newberry, has had most discomforting experiences with the Senate to which he aspired; two others, James R. Garfield and George Bruce Cortelyou have retired to private life. But John Hay, Charles J. Bonaparte, Paul Morton, are gone. Swiftly the new order becomes the old, and the old becomes a memory...
...Candor is the keynote to the trend of the literary world of today," said Major Ian Hay Beith, noted English author and playwright, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon...