Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those fatal bullets, Frenchmen have always believed, were paid for from Berlin, and last week to Frenchmen it came as the conclusion of a logical sequence that Nicholas Titulescu was finally dropped as Foreign Minister of Rumania as he lay sick on the French Riviera. Sick too was the erstwhile predominance of Paris at Bucharest and in the Rumanian capital a new star had shot up with a Nazi sizzle, Dr. Octavian Goga...
...Cabinet dared to take an acrimonious stand against the British Cabinet on the subject of whales, as 10,000 Norwegian sailors who normally man British-owned whaling ships not only struck but prisoned this British commercial fleet in the deep narrow harbor of the Sandefjord. As the ships lay at anchor, their funnels cold and smokeless, pale-eyed Norwegian seamen in blue jerseys leaned against lamp posts on the quay, seemingly convinced that the British Navy would not invade the Sandefjord...
...rustic snuggery at Berchtesgaden halted all German cases pending against Catholics for smuggling or perversion. Ordering sweeping retrials the Realmleader intimated that hereafter the Church will have an opportunity to expel presumably guilty priests, nuns or friars from its ranks so that they can go to trial as lay persons. Such sudden action appeared to mean that Adolf Hitler, just now more attracted than ever by Nazi schemes of launching a war to wipe Bolshevism out of Russia, was prepared to take at something like face value overtures of aid made to Der Führer last week by German...
When the followers of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman wish to emphasize the fact that the Oxford Groups include all sorts of people, they often speak of their "former Communist" colleague, Scotsman James Watt. The Oxford Groups lay no claim to having a "former Fascist" in their midst, and German Buchmanite baronesses hedge when asked how the movement works in the case of German Jews. Last week, to a stray interviewer from the New York World-Telegram, brisk Dr. Buchman readily declared himself on Fascism, now No. i bugaboo to practically all U. S. churchmen...
...lay: Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, at Litchfield, with pneumonia; Governor Charles Ben Ross of Idaho, Democratic rival of William Edgar Borah for the U. S. Senate, at Boise with neuritis; Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, at Santa Barbara with a carbuncle. Snapped he into a radio microphone at his bedside: "The party of Lincoln ... is nothing more than a racketeering gang led by millionaire privilege seekers and tax evaders, with a following of inflammatory demagogs and Democratic renegades in the pay of the Liberty League...