Word: lain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris arrived last week seven bodies that had lain for days in the wreckage of a French plane in the Great Congo Forest, had been mauled by leopards, lions, jackals and wolves, had been punctured by the proboscises of poisonous flies and mosquitoes, had been stripped of valuables by Banda Negroes and finally had been found by a Belgian search pilot, shipped down the Congo River to French Equatorial Africa's capital, Brazzaville, thence by rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa...
...drowsy member of the 74th Congress had on Jan. 3 lain down to nap on a cloakroom sofa, and if by some miracle he had slept until last week, he would, on awaking, have had no reason to believe that he had taken more than three winks...
...Central Kitchen lain...
...passages of Joycean impressionism, Whitmanesque poetry. In form it is variously a narrative, an epic, a diatribe, a chronicle, a psalm, but in essence it is a U. S. voice. Author Wolfe's whole theme: "Why is it we have crossed the stormy seas so many times alone, lain in a thousand alien rooms at night hearing the sounds of time, dark time, and thought until heart, brain, flesh and spirit were sick and weary with the thought of it; 'Where shall I go now? What shall I do?'. . . We are so lost, so lonely, so forsaken...
...Democracy and West of the G. O. P. Nobody in Pennsylvania has ever succeeded in orienting the Pinchots. They have been borderland cases for years. Governor Pinchot's old Pennsylvanian family comes from Milford, across the Delaware from Port Jervis, N. Y. For generations their interests have lain cross-country and down the Hudson toward New York rather than down the Delaware toward Philadelphia. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's money came from an old New York fortune. Snobbish Philadelphia hates the Pinchots because their social life centres in Manhattan, where Mrs. Pinchot, as a descendant of Peter Cooper...