Word: layed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Guppy's term as president of the British Library Association ended last week and Edward James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine replaced him at the association's jubilee meeting in Edinburgh. The chief significance of the succession lay in the ability of a librarian group to attract a potent citizen to their leadership...
...Luke's Hospital, Chicago, Dr. Alfred P. Solomon, neurologist, last week, hypnotized a young woman. During the hour she lay so, Dr. Harold G. Jones of Chicago opened her abdomen and removed several bothersome adhesions. She felt no pain and, upon awakening, experienced none of the nauseating after-effects of usual anesthetics. Such operations upon hypnotized patients are rare in the U. S. In Europe (notably in France and Germany) they are frequent. Europeans esteem the uses of hypnotism. They used it for surgical operations 100 years ago. The discovery in 1848 of chloroform's anesthetic properties curtailed...
...featured in the first all-Negro musical comedy, Shuffle Along. Her last triumph was Florence Mills & Her Blackbirds (London, 1927). Said she before death: "I've not begun to be what I was meant to be." At the largest funeral ever known to Harlem, she lay in a $10,000 copper coffin. Six hundred chorus voices sang Negro spirituals to the accompaniment of 200 musicians...
...LAY SERMONS-Margot Asquith- Doran ($2.50). Her alert countenance, her boundless arrogance, her crude curious argot, her inquisitive mind with its eagerness to disclose whatever trifles it may contain, have made the Countess of Oxford and Asquith famous. Her autobiography, published in 1922, was a mansion of closets, each inhabited by a dusty skeleton. The enormity of its sale was caused by a universal appetite for prying gossip; its result was an eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink...
...summary: HARVARD '31 BRADFORD Roland, g. g., Trainor Des Roches, l.f.b. r.f.b., Connell Sargent, r.f.b. r.f.b., Fayans Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b., Callder E. Carter, c.h.b. c.h.b., Walmsley Tatham, r.h.b. l.h.b., D'Adamo Carrigan, c c., Singleton W. Carter, l.o.f. r.o.f., Padelford Grover, l.i.f. r.i.f., Furlong Carroll, r.o.f. l.o.f., Gerschwinn, McCallum Lay, r.i.f. l.i.f., Burns...