Word: hy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ojai valley (pronounced O-hy) of California swarms every afternoon with outlandish & desperate-looking bandits wearing fuzzy chaps, huge spurs, violently colored silk shirts, ten and sometimes only five-gallon hats. These desperadoes swoop down on a drugstore-and ask for an ice cream soda. After they have mangled the straws and paid the soda-jerker, they climb on their horses and ride back to Thacher School, where they prepare for college...
...that his soul soars on wings of triumph to a poetic and religious ecstasy. To date he has completed his cycle of dramas "L'Arbre (The Tree of Life), dealing with the soul's emergence from the mundane, and has topped this dramatic Comedie Humaine with his Hy nines and Cinque Grandes Odes, poems in which the muse of religious devotion seems at times to be raving in a delirium...
...Author. Mrs. Edith Wharton (née Jones of New York), a vigorous lady of 63, seldom leaves the cosmopolitan stream of charming and distinguished people constantly passing through her villa at Hyères on the Mediterranean and her house in Paris. Since 1899, she has been known as the most apt pupil Novelist Henry James ever had-a pupil with a score of polished books to her credit, including one American masterpiece, Ethan Frame...
...heels of an unprecedented break in wheat came a severe reaction in the stockmarket. With money rates rising slowly, and an evident tendency on the part of Secretary Mellon (who, incidentally, is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board) to look askance at the large sums of money loaned hy banks on stocks and bonds, such a fall in share prices is not fundamentally surprising. There has been the further factor of evident over production in many basic industries to give pause to undue optimism...