Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Wallace Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania R. R., lost six blooded horses, a calf, farm machinery, half of his crop of hay and wheat, when lightning and fire smote the barn of his estate near Philadelphia...
...tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David Vivian Bath, the ousted onetime gardener, was well qualified to write, for only year before yesterday he married the entirely honeymoonish Mary Hay, dancer, onetime Mrs. Richard Barthelmess...
...Seattle, Count George Hay du Barry invented a red and white signal flag for distressed motorists. On one side appears the legend STALLED! SEND TIRE MAN; on the other SEND MECHANIC, PLEASE! HAVE A HEART!! For no other wayside dilemma has: Count du Barry prepared flags...
...Manhattan, dowager hippopotamus of the Central Park zoo, first of her species to enter the U. S. (1880), relict of Caliph I, mother of Caliph II; of indigestion and senility; in Manhattan. Her teeth and appetite had worn away. Her last meal was a meagre 60 Ibs. of chopped hay, 30 qts. of mash...
...lower jaws stuck out like the scoops of steam shovels. Their feet and hands were disproportionately huge. The fingers were shaped like clubs, without grace. Hair grew on the backs of the fingers and hands. The faces of those who were shaven showed many coarse wrinkles, like a harvested hay field...