Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around Madrid, "the hottest battle of the war was being fought last week for the capital. Blood was up on both sides. Radicals and Whites scrambled out of their trenches calling each other names and demanding hand-to-hand fights. After an exchange of machine gun fire, there lay dead 50 Radicals, 50 Whites. With grim determination Generalissimo Franco spat out orders that White officers who could not control their men were to be shot. Meantime White bombers winged over Madrid, plunked seven bombs on the U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Building, largest structure in the city. In retaliation...
Thereafter Author Lawrence follows each employe home to reveal what lay back of his decision; Gregory wanting to marry, ambitious Johnny Palmet trying to get luxuries for his extravagant wife, Kati Oliver wanting to raise a child, frightened little Mureth Gavril trying to escape her mother's dominance, all with their noses close to the grindstone, all burdened with debts, worry, obligations to relatives, making unappreciated sacrifices and impossible plans. On the other side the Luth brothers are fanning a feeble flicker of business, trying to keep from taking losses, while their children make foolish marriages, family parasites drain...
...morning last week in the East Room of the White House a small mountain of flowers was banked between the huge portraits of George and Martha Washington. Before the flowers the ornate South American coffin of Gus Gennerich lay in state. Over it a Lutheran minister read the second funeral service for the Presidential bodyguard who dropped dead in Buenos Aires. Among the 300 listeners seated on gilt chairs were George and Augustus Gutrie, bereaved brother-in-law and nephew, Cabinet members and their ladies, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, Mrs. Roosevelt, the President himself, sunburned, leaner, refreshed from 28 days...
Last month Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who loves few things better than a big family feast, gave up Thanksgiving dinner at Hyde Park to rush to Boston where Son Franklin Jr. lay abed with what was described to the press as "sinus trouble." The young man did have infected sinuses, and he was in the capable, Republican hands of Dr. George Loring Tobey Jr., a fashionable and crackerjack Boston ear, nose & throat specialist. He also had a graver affliction, septic sore throat, and there was danger that the Streptococcus haemolyticus might get into his blood stream. Once there the germs...
...word first spread through the trade early this month, it caused a scramble for the necessary bales. Cotton prices in the past fortnight jumped 1? per lb., giving the South a $10,000,000 Christmas present. Profit for Messrs. Tullis & Craig, loss for those who had to deliver, lay in the fact that good spot cotton had risen more than future cotton because of the insatiable demand from mills (November cotton consumption was 627,000 bales, equal to the all-time record for that month...