Word: hay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home, his boat and fishing gear and most of them have a cow and an ox in the barn, a pig in the shed, a small garden behind the house. Among the rocks back of the Cove are a few grassy plots where cattle and oxen feed and small hay crops are raised. Hay is cut with a scythe, raked by women & children, hauled to the barn by oxen which move at about the same gait as Peggy's inhabitants...
...theater? Billy hired Hecht and MacArthur to write the show, Rodgers & Hart to do the songs, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra to play them. Jimmy Durante as the star, and Broadway's biggest showcase, the Hippodrome, to house the spectacle. He called it Jumbo and induced Millionaire John Hay Whitney to back it with a down payment of $200,000. Cracked Rose: "This will either break Jock Whitney or make...
Hollywood stayed right in its groove. Rita Hay worth took steps to have her two-year-old daughter (by Orson Welles) made a corporation director in mother's new producing firm. Actor Wallace Ford beat a drunken driving rap by explaining that he drove the way he did because his whiskers kept blowing in his face. Ex-Ziegfeld Beauty Boots Mallory, arrested for drunken driving, was freed to await trial. Actor Lionel Stander & wife filed petitions in bankruptcy, listing assets of $3,150, liabilities of $33,772.77. Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail...
Finding needles in the proverbial hay-stack would be light work for the dozen girls who run the Alumni Records Office in Widener, whose day-to-day tasks involve files of more than 88,000 living Harvard men and many generations of deceased graduates...
...dictionary calls it "a catarrhal affection of the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and respiratory tract," and Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the only cure for it "is six feet of gravel, taken externally," but all these unfortunates cursed with hay fever know that it is one damn nuisance...