Word: layed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Juarez; received the Mayor of Colton, Calif., in pajamas; arrived in Los Angeles "not feeling very well." Two hours late for a luncheon, he told Los Angeles that California was going to go Democratic, that there was to be a national Smith landslide. He went to Hollywood and lay abed late...
...tell you, TIME, they all lay down sooner or later...
...Merry-Go-Round Blue Hour Charm Furnace Ferndale Don Royale Silver Slipper Jungle Luigi's Beaux Arts Frivolity European Greenwich Social La Frera Knight The raiders were 100 Federal agents, picked from distant districts, whom Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran ordered to Manhattan in February to "get the lay." In couples and squads and single, well-dressed and well-heeled, they had ingratiated themselves with night club proprietors. Helen Morgan, actress-hostess, was angered to discover that the "Mr. & Mrs. Lon Tyson" whom she had played with for weeks in and out of business hours, were spies and informers...
When the corner stone of the new Library was laid, Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain, exclaimed with fervor: "When generations of the future ask our successors about the origin and sense of this monument of which we lay the first stone, they will be answered: 'At Louvain the Germans, by burning the library, definitely broke with wisdom and with civilization...
Thereupon follows a story which was written at the same time as volume one, but even the trader admits "I couldn't lay claim this time to its being autobiography." Himself a Lancastrian, "Horn" grew up with all the folklore of a yarn-swapping race, and out of remembered bits from the mouths of old men he has woven a maundering tale of his Viking ancestors: Young Harold, born with webbed hands and feet -emblem of luck in a seagoing world-set out a-pirating with a crew of other "elderly boys"; the climax to their voyage, a sharp...