Word: laine
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While writers of three generations have been spinning yarns on the epic of the fighting frigate that captured the British vessel Guerriere, and motion pictures of this generation have aided in immortalizing it, the tale of a seaman eye-witness of its greatest victory has lain hidden in an old yellowed pamphlet in the College Library...
...that justice in the strict sense of the word would be truly served either by the release of the prisoners or by a further term of imprisonment the greater part of which might be taken as having been already satisfied by the six years under which the prisoners have lain under sentence of death...
...England, the Matamata terrapin at the London Zoo, having lain motionless in a corner of its tank for months, last week shoved out its legs, walked a short distance, drew in its legs, lay motionless...
...week scientists and doctors opened a campaign to raise money to help onetime Private Kissinger. Not long ago friends had found him nearly destitute, broken in body and mind from the illnesses that followed the yellow fever he caught that night near Quemados. For nearly 20 years, he has lain in a wheel-chair suffering from spinal myelitis. His wife has nursed him and supported him. But the U. S. has not been overgenerous with its rewards to the men who helped stamp out yellow fever. While one year of yellow fever was estimated to have cost the State...
...years a gaunt Englishman has lain paralyzed in the village of Grez-sur-Loing, France, unable to go among men and hear them praise his music as "greatest in England since Purcell [17th Cen-tury]" and even "ranking with the greatest of all time." He is Frederick Delius, onetime Florida orange-planter, onetime music teacher in Danville, Va. He wrote "Sea Drift" to Walt Whitman's words. He wrote "Mass of Life" and "Appalachia." Later he set Poet James Elroy Flecker's Hassan to music and the splendors of "The Golden Road to Samarkand" filled the Haymarket Theatre...