Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...16th.-Lay long in dreams, and much troubled at my heart with the great owl I did kill last night while driving in Walthem. So drest myself, and back to the stump where, very sad, I left him. But, lo, the big bird was gone! Yet I know he must be dead for he did hoot violently when I to pick him up and then he to cough up some mouse's parts and then to close his white eyes and hoot no more. This I do not like too much for I have heard evil things of those witchy...
This experience in lay writing started Maxwell Anderson, University of North Dakota, II, in a field of rich creation. Before then, he had vascillated between an academic career (school teaching in the Dakotas and the English department at Stanford) and writing for pay (newspaper work on two coasts, east and west). After What Price Glory he wrote nearly a hit a year. In 1930 it was Elizabeth the Queen, in 1933 Mary of Scotland. Both Your Houses won the Politzer prize. A month of so ago his friendly enemies, the New York critics, awarded him a plaque for having written...
...milestone stands at a parting of the ways, not even scholars can tell with certainty. Mencken himself, modestly disclaiming any clairvoyance on the subject, sticks stoutly to his factual report on what the American language has been and now is, but thinks American the coming tongue. Calling himself a lay brother, "surely no philologian," he intimates that his book is but a temporary signpost, serving its turn until the completion of such monuments-in-progress as Sir William Craigie's Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (begun in 1926 at the University of Chicago, now well under...
...Washington Naval Treaty expires at midnight Dec. 31, 1936. Until that time no signatory nation may lay a keel in violation of treaty limits. Viscount Monsell announced last week that between now and then the Admiralty will assemble machinery, gun mountings, hull materials for an extra-Treaty armada whose keels may thus be legitimately laid next New Year's day. Proposed new tonnage included...
...Lusitanias. Obviously, a few members of Congress and the American press have benefited well from the discussions; for the same newspapers which ran essay contests on neutrality now show their intense patriotism and their same desire to see American run the earth. It was not lack of patriotism which lay behind the order to leave the American legation; it was experience of the history of more than one recent crisis and an exact knowledge of the unimportance of American interests and the importance of avoiding friction. The so-called "insult to the American flag" has served to prove not only...