Word: henyard
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...grandfather clock in the main hall still reminds one that the President's office next door was once a drawing room. The white-painted rooms are broad and still luxurious, and the landings of the stair case command a fine view of the Yard that used to be a henyard. But Fay House is a house with a present as well as a past. The sign on the third floor has a commanding message for today's Radcliffe girl. In soliciting funds for the College's 70th anniversary, it says, "when, if not now! Who else...
...craggy Yugoslav villages, where for three years the sound of aircraft had been a sign as dread as the shadow of a hawk's wing across a henyard, villagers looked up at first in fear. Then they rushed out and cheered: the big formations of heavy bombers drumming overhead in stately alignment were U.S. planes outward bound from their bases in Italy...
...wondrous sulfa drugs are now being used against animal diseases. Sulfanilamide cures fowl pneumonia and several eye infections, reports D. E. Lothamer of Louisville, Ohio; and sulfaguanidine cures intestinal coccidiosis, another common henyard plague, reports Professor Jerry R. Beach of the University of California. Such drugs are now a bit too costly for widespread use by poultrymen, notes Beach, but a large demand would cut the cost to a practical level...
...Mint Canyon, Calif, one day last week, Mrs. Clara Weiss's chickens and turkeys were thrown into panic by a huge bird which roared across the henyard only a few feet above the ground. Few minutes later, Mrs. Weiss heard a "terrible clattering sound." The bird, an $80,000 Lockheed 14, had perched violently on the crest of 3,000-ft. Mount Stroh, had carried nine to their deaths...
...which are the salt of Author Stong's books. Before Grandpa Storr speaks a word you find out exactly what sort of person he is by the way he picks up a dish of cold breakfast cereal, carries it out into the yard, dumps it contemptuously into the henyard. Louise falls in love with Guy at a village dance while Simon the hired man (Stuart Erwin) is getting drunk on corn whiskey. For a genre incident-of the kind which have made Stong contributions unique in the current cinema-the best shot in The Stranger's Return...
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