Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of a national emergency, perhaps the greatest since the period when an Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln, brooding over a political speech, decided to let the phrase, "a house divided against itself cannot stand," remain in the text. Off in the unknown future lay a sequence of collisions and calamities, no one of which would have been believed for a minute by the industrious philosophers of 1929. While the echoes of the crash were still rolling, the ardent Charles Mitchell, supersalesman of the boom years, said calmly, "I am still of the opinion that the reaction has badly overrun...
...this was Europe's, and not civilization's, war. As in the first days of the crisis that was called the crash, citizens divided between those who believed that it would soon be over and those who believed that only ruin and the end of reasoning man lay ahead. No genius was needed to foretell the war's coming. But no genius was clairvoyant enough to predict its outcome or its end, to guess the magnitude of the struggle or how, eventually, its antagonists would line up; no philosopher was so clear as to say what...
...late in October 1929, no man could picture October 1939, no one at the outbreak of war could picture the U. S. ten years hence and see with confidence the conditions of its common life. Off in the unknown future lay a sequence of struggles that would number the prophets and the positive among its casualties. Off in the same future lay the contributions to the productive life to be tested against the forces of destruction. And off in the same future lay the challenge of great ideas to change the mood of the people, to determine where if anywhere...
...first movie, two years ago, was "Live, Love, and Learn," made with Benchley, Robert Montgomery, and Rosalind Russell. "Benchley fell flat on his face and lay there dead drunk when he first came in, and when I entered, my trousers fell down and Montgomery drenched me with a bucket of water," recalled Woolley...
...writes her verse-as a considerable public will also read it-as a breather from sitting pretty. No cynic but a broad-minded wincer at spiritual unhappiness, Hay tries to reconcile religious reverence for life's possibilities with lay disappointment in its facts...