Word: haying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening speeches were about such innocuous concerns as German unity and anti-Fascist solidarity. The Russian angel of the performance, a small, feral, red-eyed lieutenant colonel named Alexander Dymshitz, sat and beamed. But as the sessions wore on, the Reds could not resist the temptation to make political hay. Up stood one Vsevolod Vishnevsky, a Soviet author and war reporter in excellent standing with the Kremlin. He told how, during the siege of Leningrad, he had personally saved German anti-Fascist and classical literature from German bombs. That was all right, but he went...
...regents decided that Dobie must go. The problem was how to get rid of him, for he was the biggest name on the Texas campus. Finally, a way was found. For years, Dobie had taken leave without pay during the fall term to write, and to avoid the hay-fever season. This year, when he applied for leave as usual, Painter refused it, said he must stay on the job. No, said Dobie: hay fever "devastated" him. President Painter thereupon issued a statement: "By this action, Dobie's connection with the university has terminated...
They will need 100,000 readers to make money-but money is one of the least of their problems. Among their well-heeled backers: Gerard Swope, John Hay Whitney, Lessing Rosenwald...
...worst of the trouble revolves around Dorothy Lamour, who is marooned on a farm but can think of only one good use for hay. She points this good use out to Ladd, who spurns her advances. So she marries Preston in order to keep in touch with her quarry. Finally Ladd and Preston slug it out in a bar and find that they mean much more to each other than the disconcerted Miss Lamour does...
...this is just a romance; so any objections are bound to seem captious. There could be no objections to parts of the movie. The songs are pretty, Newcomer Janet Leigh is pretty to look at and there are some rather pretty bits of deep-country detail (e.g., hustling the hay in ahead of a storm). But Rosy Ridge attempts to base its romance on authentic and charming Americana. The job requires more than prettiness and benevolent patriotism. Faces, hands, clothes and postures need to suggest hard work, real life and a certain tension of character, rather than mere magazine illustration...