Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fate of the play lay in the hands of young Broderick Crawford. 210-lb. ex-football player, son of Comedienne Helen Broderick. Built up into a hulking, shuffling imbecile by means of four-inch shoes and padded shoulders, Crawford won sympathy for a monstrous character, playing Lennie as a pathetic giant who kills as innocently as an unintentionally offending child. Next to Crawford's goosefleshy characterization, that of Actor Hamilton as Candy came closest to the realism Author Steinbeck strove...
...Bishop-elect Chornock's diocese was born when 36 of Bishop Takach's priests petitioned him to appeal the second papal order. Father Chornock and five other clergy were excommunicated by the Vatican. By last week their faction had grown to include 40 parishes, drew 300 lay and clerical delegates to a convention in Pittsburgh...
...drew to a close, it looked as if Vanderbilt and Alabama would each end the season with one defeat: the score stood 7-to-6 in Vanderbilt's favor. Then Alabama's portly Coach Thomas waved Haywood ("Sandy") Sanford, 200-lb. sophomore, into the game. The ball lay on Vanderbilt's 14-yd. line over at the edge of the field, in Alabama's possession and in imminent danger of being lost on downs. Sandy Sanford stepped back and at a 45-degree angle booted a place-kick true between the goal posts. Score: Alabama...
Died. Bonita, 21, mongrel fox terrier which sulked three days beneath the coffin of her owner, the late Horticulturist Luther Burbank while he lay in state after his death in 1926; of old age; in Santa Rosa, Calif...
Feller took the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved: That this house support the Loyalist Government in Spain," defeating the negative speaker, Merwin K. Hart, Jr. '40, by an audience vote of 17 to 9. A second show of hands revealed that the audience's sympathies lay with the Leftists by a ten vote margin...