Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House dance in honor of the President's next prospective daughter-in-law, Ethel du Pont, was scheduled for the day after Christmas, then unscheduled and left dangling because her fiance, Franklin Jr., lay in Massachusetts General Hospital waiting an operation for an acute sinus infection...
Until facts should emerge, observers overseas could only cast about for a hypothesis which would fit the situation, and one lay ready to hand. It might be untrue but it was logical that Premier Chiang should have decided to enlist in a Chinese war against Japan the aid of that same Soviet Government which enabled him to conquer China in the first place and which only last fortnight received the slap in Moscow's face of a Japanese-German accord against Communism (TIME, Dec. 7). No stranger things happen anywhere than among Chinese generals and there were a whole...
Into a Pittsburgh church one day last week marched Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno and 77 automobilists convicted of drunken driving. In a coffin below the pulpit lay the corpse of one Wasco Bombar, killed by a drunken driver. Ranging the 77 culprits in front pews where they could see the coffin and a big wreath they had jointly bought for it, Judge Musmanno entered the pulpit to deliver a funeral sermon. Excerpt...
...Lay cures for sneezing which Mary Cleer was urged to try included wearing a "magnetic" letter pinned to her night dress, looking down the bridge of her nose at pieces of bright silk held close to the tip, clipping an electrified wire to her nose and toes, getting tattooed, taking snuff...
Sixty times in Canada's Buffalo National Park one day last week Assistant Game Warden Samuel Purshell raised his rifle, aimed, fired. At rundown 60 buffalo lay dead. Next day, as eleven herd riders drove more shaggy victims into the huge enclosure where he worked. Warden Purshell repeated his butchery. Progressing at the rate of 60 animals per day, his goal was 1,500 dead buffalo...