Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telephone jangled. Commissioner James Hay left the room to answer it. Lieutenant Commissioner Haines went on talking for a minute or two; then wearily he sat down. When Commissioner Hay returned, even the most phlegmatic councilman could spot him as a bearer of bad tidings. From London had come a trunk call. Gen. Booth had gone to law, obtaining a temporary injunction which forbade the council to elect a successor to his deposed self...
Lieutenant Commissioner Haines gasped, stared hard. At Hay's suggestion all rose, asked God for guidance. The meeting was adjourned...
...Jacques Feyder. He makes as exciting as a melodrama a scene of two children ostracizing another child from a game. Other shots: the feet of farmers under a coffin fumbling on a wooden stairway; a boy who has been punished raving at the closed door of his room; a hay-harvest, and, later, an avalanche in the Swiss Alps; the stepmother saving the boy, Jean, from a mountain river where at last he has tried to drown himself...
...Clarence called the steer Dick. When Dick was calved (July 27, 1927), Clarence paid his father, Fred Goecke of State Centre, Marshall County, Iowa, $55 for the gangling Hereford bull. Thereafter, every day Clarence fed Dick ground corn, cooked barley, oil meal, bran, molasses feed, clover hay. Clarence groomed Dick himself, made Dick's hair curly with a special comb, helped make him a steer...
Cold winds blew Chicago's packing house stenches over the Union Stock Yard. But the trainloads of farmers, breeders, fitters, butchers, hay & grain raisers there with their families minded the fetid air not at all. They were in Chicago for their year's biggest holiday...