Word: hay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stay out of the war: a treaty of friendship, a trade agreement, new credits. Such appeasement must have flattered Il Duce. Nevertheless, Il Duce refused. Meanwhile parallel British appeasement feelers, equally fruitless, resulted in a temporary easing of contraband inspection of Italian vessels passing Gibraltar. Last week Italy made hay while the sun still shone...
...week's end 2,500 gallerygoers from as far away as San Francisco and Baltimore had followed them. To add to the U. S. atmosphere, Cranbrook provided U. S. tomato plants in window boxes, U. S. music, Rhine wine flavored to taste like U. S. new-mown hay...
Divorced. Sportswoman Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney, 34; from Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 35; after ten years of marriage; in Reno...
...completely destroyed Nankai University in Tientsin; not a book or piece of equipment was saved. Japanese soldiers looted National Peking University, sold its furniture for cigaret money. At Tsing Hua University, in Peking, Japanese smashed laboratories to bits, converted the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Gymnasium into a stable, the John Hay Memorial Library into a hospital...
Many are the newly-registered racing silks, notably those of New York Racing Commissioner John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who started his stable of jumpers last year; Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, enter prising young president of Belmont; and Hollywood's Cinemagnate Louis...