Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charleston last week the President was piped over the side, of the Navy's sleek, light cruiser Philadelphia, about to put out on a six-day "shakedown cruise." Across the dock from the Philadelphia lay the ancient battle sloop. Hartford, which Rear Admiral Farragut comm.anded in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay and the capture of New Orleans. Cried the President to Rear Admiral William Henry Allen, standing with his staff on the pier...
First guess was at least partly wrong. The Scott Resolution did not force the State Department to lay down its face cards-which it may, nonetheless, do in the near future. On the other hand, something entirely different prompted Franklin Roosevelt to pick up some of his. Acting Secretary of State last week was Mr. Roosevelt's good friend Sumner Welles, who last summer met and greatly admired England's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Last week, according to the most reliable reports, Mr. Chamberlain strongly urged his new friend, in the absence of canny Secretary Hull, to persuade...
...fetch a surgeon quickly; we still may save him. You women there, bring cordials - lay her down - gently, gently...
...Before him knelt three consistorial lawyers, pleaders for three saints whose visages and deeds the people beheld upon great banners in St. Peter's-Andre Bobola, Polish Jesuit (1592-1657), Giovanni Leonardi Italian founder of a religious congregation (1541-1609), Salvador da Horta (1520-67), humble Spanish Franciscan lay brother. Thrice the lawyers begged the Pope-instanter, instantius and instantis-sime-to grant the canonizations. The Pope, imploring the guidance of the Holy Ghost, pronounced a formula of sanctification for each saint, then intoned a prayer while the bells of St. Peter's and all the churches...
...Thomas Dewey demanding a "substantial and punitive sentence" on two counts of stealing from his wife's trust fund and from the portfolio of the New York Yacht Club. As Richard Whitney stood pale before him, Judge Bohan lost no time in showing with which plea his sympathies lay. Said...