Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Lewis O. Barrows had the benefit of an anti-third-term tradition against former Governor Louis J. Brann, for whom Crooner Rudy Vallée stumped at the last moment. That all four Republicans won was less of a weather vane than a what-is-it, unless significance lay in the vote ratios-5 to 4 Republican this year (gubernatorial) as against 4 to 3 Republican...
...beckoning September day four years ago, sandy-haired, 21-year-old Dwight Long, restless son of a Seattle builder, chucked his junior studies at the University of Washington and pointed his snug, white, 32-foot ketch Idle Hour out of Puget Sound. Before him lay the glamorous uncertainty of the western horizon; behind, Foulweather Bluff and the fouler prospects of graduating into a depression. One afternoon last week, with 35,000 miles in her wake and her bows scoured with the spray of more than seven seas. Idle Hour breezed in from the blue Atlantic and hove to off Manhattan...
Last week the Federation's board of directors met in Chicago to lay plans for the next biennial convention, to be held in Baltimore next May. Inveterate resolvers, even when meeting in smaller groups, the Federationists, led by their doe-eyed national president, Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober last week resolved: 1) to encourage the singing of opera in the English language (see above), 2) to support the development of small local opera companies throughout the U. S., 3) to pay more attention to music in the rural schools, 4) to help the growth of orchestral music 5) to encourage...
Last week Devil's Advocate Natucci journeyed to a Manhattan Catholic high school named for Mother Cabrini. In a coffin in the chapel-crypt lay her body, removed there from a cemetery five years ago after being identified and reported "well-preserved" - an aid but not an essential to beatification. Last week Monsignor Natucci, his entourage and a few necessary witnesses beheld a second exhumation of Mother Cabrini. At some secret later time, the Devil's Advocate was to sever from the body a limb (which limb would not be revealed) - a "first-class" relic which he would...
...Bill had got out of bed with the wrong foot; when he came out. pointedly ignored her. Vexed, Hilda gave a loud, long trumpet. Suddenly Bill lowered his head, charged, hit Hilda broadside, knocked her tail-over-tea-kettle into the 25-ft.-deep moat, where she lay on crumpled legs, apparently paralyzed...