Word: ian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sport of Kings. Ian Hay (Beith) is not now so well known as he was during the War. His battle writings roused interest in his novels; his lectures spread the advertisement. Of late he has withdrawn somewhat from the general consciousness. He returns with a chaotic farce about betting on horse races. It is not likely to add to his repute...
...content with understanding that they cannot understand them. This book is as English as Huntley and Palmer's. Its jokes are English in their unobstrusive dreariness. Its pages abound with Dickensy eccentrics and Arch bald Marshallish country life, and, in addition, there is an unmistakable flavor of Kipling and Ian Hay and Conan Doyle...
...Clive returned to the Copley stage Wednesday night in Ian Hay's new play, "False Pretences", but there were no false pretences in the tumultuous applause that greeted the returned wanderer and also, as a matter of fact, the hitherto unproduced comedy...
...snubbed by both. In the pupils' parlance, "they don't mean anything anyway", and it is not unusual to hear an instructor announce with studied weariness that "the rules and regulation of the University require me to set an hour examination". Such is the enthusiasm with which these March-ian April hours are commonly greeted...
Copley--False Pretenses," by Ian...