Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week no Democrat, high or low, New or Old Deal, cared to take his political life in his hands, suggest brutal tax increases. The shadow of 1940 lay heavy on the grey Capitol, the gleaming White House. Ancient, ham-handed "Old Muley" Bob Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, celebrated his 76th birthday, optimistically remarked that the war boom in business might obviate the need of new taxes...
...crisis. Five days later the offer was repeated. Since these appeals, then politely rejected, presumably still stood open, observers wondered why the two practical sovereigns found it necessary to renew their peace effort at a time when there was less likelihood than ever before that the belligerents would lay down their arms. Moreover, this new appeal contained no formula for calling off hostilities...
...only the Maginot line and pocket battleships but a new quick-firing, self-loading weapon called the Bureau of Public Information. While Nazi planes ripped up Poland, the allied bombers buried the country-side with pamphlets. Along the Westwall, scores of victrolas blared at the French through loudspeakers: "Lay down your arms. We have no quarrel with you." From their Whitehall desks English officials are preaching to the world a poilus legend of crusade...
...citizens. All the shipping lines could see were the angular lines of the combat areas defined by the President, wherein no U. S. ship may deliver goods of any sort on penalty of $50,000 fine, five years in prison or both (see map). Through these forbidden seas lay the eight trade routes of 92 U. S. ships, with a Government investment of $195,061,000, an annual gross revenue of $52,500,000. There was plenty of open water elsewhere-notably around South America-but hardly a drop the shipping men could drink...
Like most children, little Dahlov Zorach scribbled pictures when she was three years old. Unlike most children, she was a sculptor's daughter. Fond Father William Zorach began saving all her work he could lay his hands on, kept on saving it. Result: A unique exhibition last week (at the Young People's Gallery in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art) which showed 19 years of an artist's growth...