Word: layed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...epic tale of a lonely girl working in dusty grainfields is the story of Ruth. One of the most dramatic and colorful scenes in all literature is the description of her entering the threshing room at night, creeping to where the mighty farmer Boaz lay drunken on a pile of corn, softly snuggling herself to sleep at his feet. Question: Would a child suspect evil...
...Pittsburgh End Joe Donchess lay prone on Waynesburg's goal line, he lifted his arms as if by accident and found between them a pass that was soon forgotten in his team's scarcely hindered scoring. Pittsburgh 53, Waynesburg...
...evening in 1895 there was revelry in the castle. Outside, the land lay sickening under black frost. A ballroom was remodeled for the party, costing thousands of pounds. The next day Robert Blatchford, in his Clarion, savagely attacked the hostess and her guests for making merry at so desolate a time. Frances went to London indignant, returned thoroughly Blatchfordized. Since then she has established eleemosynary institutions on her estates (Crippled Children's Home, Needlework School at Easton, Bigods School, The College for training women in horticulture). All of them have failed; the benevolent countess has dissipated a large fortune...
This will be the first school anywhere in Europe to give a business education comparable to that provided at Harvard. Professor Dorlot emphasized, the point that M. Jolly's difficulties in designing his school after an American model lay in the fact the whole French system of education is conducted on basis entirely different from the American. "Then, too," he said, "there was the opposition of European manufacturers to overcome. They do not believe in cooperation, and are jealous to hide from each other their individual business methods
This is only Mlle. Keila's second season upon the stage. When asked if she had inherited any of her father's talent for sculpture, she replied that her only art lay in moving her legs; but that she liked dancing so well that she intended to make it her life work. "My poor, dear teacher," she said, with little trace of either pity or affection, "was Turassof. Of course eventually I intend to do concert work. For the present, however I shall continue in musical comedy with my partner Mlle. Lezandre, who also dances in this show. Although Mlle...