Word: layed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seven tigers, as docile as 30-year-old cab-horses, were lounging and limping around a ring where a woman stood, telling them nonchalantly when to stop and go. One lazy, spavined creature growled at the woman with perfunctory rage. Then he and another tiger pounced upon her and lay on top of her biting the woman with their yellow teeth and slapping her with huge limber paws that left two-inch grooves on her arms and bloody ruts across her face. Almost before the people in the audience had time to scream, the lion tamer came over from...
Evangelist H. W. Thomas lay in a coffin one evening last week. Peering over the edge he harangued Milwaukeeans with ghoulish realism on the subject, "The Journey We All Must Take...
Bishop Rummel, whose churchly duties have hitherto been confined to metropolitan regions, must have had strange feelings of dismay mixed with his anticipations of the journey that lay before him. In Manhattan, a pastor's flock often contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop...
...which Christ announced his intentions of coming to earth. Next were shown the three kings, each an allegorical figure; last the shepherds, of whom some talked labor dissatisfaction until the chief shepherd knocked their heads together and they all went to bow down at the creche in which Jesus lay, squealing, with a halo around His head...
...have a mortal father. Fundamentalists have blown and stamped, Modernists have scoffed and reasoned, Moderates have explained and pleaded. This year, the meeting in Tulsa, Okla., had a minimum of excursions and alarms. The Fundamentalists were apparently in sufficient majority to achieve victory in the things which lay nearest their hearts and Bibles; they could not, however, expect to work their wills upon every issue. They did not try to do so : the conference opened two weeks ago like a lion's mouth and closed last week like a lamb...