Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There were two children of this marriage, Eliza, who married Judge Hay of Virginia, and Maria, who married Samuel L. Gouverneur of New York."-James Monroe by Daniel Coit Gilman...
...well as being the most important has also the greatest historical interest, for it has been occupied by James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Washington Irving, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and, in more recent years, by Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas F. Bayard, John Hay, Joseph H. Choate, Whitelaw Reid, Walter Hines Page, John W. Davis. Now a successor to these men must be chosen, as well as an Ambassador to Rome...
...Brahms variations seemed very varied and very dull, inevitably recalling Huneker's simile of Brahms and the odor of new-mown hay...
...Thayer, who held many degrees from colleges throughout the country, was a nationally-known biographer. His "Life and Times of Cavour", "Life and Letters of John Hay", and "Theodore Roosevelt--an Intimate Biography", secured for him such recognition in biographical work that the National Institution of Arts and Letters awarded him a gold medal for biography...
...love of liberty and freedom, his sense of justice, his strong intelligence, his studious habits and scholarly methods, all made it natural that he should exploit history and ponder the results until he had produced such work as his Cavour, his John Hay, his George Washington, his Theodore Roosevelt...