Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armistice morning he motored to Arlington Cemetery, to watch General Pershing lay the Presidential wreath of white chrysanthemums upon the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...back and installed the battery. That done, they again set out to look for Mrs. Taylor. Two hundred yards from the car they found her crumpled in a ditch, with one of her shoes clasped under her arm, scratches on her thigh, a bullet through her heart. Beside her lay General Denhardt's .45 calibre revolver with two chambers fired. Walking back toward the car, the men found General Denhardt's automobile keys and flashlight lying beside the road...
...Twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson's twice-divorced first husband, Commander Earl Winfield Spencer U. S. N., lay bedded last week in San Diego, Calif, after a hunting accident. Said he: "She is a most attractive woman and has one of the strongest characters I have ever known any person to possess. She is a lovely person, intelligent, witty and good company. 'Stimulating' is the word which best describes her charm. Our marriage lasted eight years, and we parted twelve years ago. I think Wallis Simpson is a wonderful woman. In whatever future she may choose-into whatever...
...princess lay on her back with her head to the north. Most of the mummy and its wrappings had disintegrated, but the head was well preserved. With the skeleton were bracelets, anklets, two necklaces of gold and a copper girdle, a gold headdress with streamers of copper and gold. Atop the sarcophagus was an ala baster headrest, shaped like a crescent moon on a pedestal (see cut). Professor Hassan found four sculptured gold fingers, searched for six more gold fingers and ten gold toes. Director John A. Wilson of Chicago's rich Oriental Institute called Chephren's daughter...
14th. Awake betimes, but lay long abed listening to the little folks doing their merry square-dance inside my head. Lord, how mischievous they are to jump so hard and race their circles round and round. Pictures of last night's revelry coming between the little dancers. Tis passing strange that the good people of Boston keep giving parties when their guests come just for the wine and much too busy chasing one another to play a proper part...