Word: layed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wages must be frozen (but not reduced). Otherwise industry may be forced to lay off workers...
...Golconda and Shawneetown and Chester, they look at me with a sad expression," he says. "Our shows've been spoiled, they say; the old days are dead." Then, toughening up, he adds: "Of course, we don't care what they come for, just as long as they lay their money down at the box office...
Leech's "Utopia on the Rocks-British Socialism in Action" was a readable but superficial, highly editorialized and sparsely documented roundup of the crisis.What Journalist Leech had set out to prove was that most of the blame for Britain's plight lay on the Labor government and its Socialism. What he proved more sharply was that Britons had been largely unaware of the rising tide of criticism of the Labor government and the new crisis. They had been brushing off attacks as mere Tory politicking, were shocked to discover that many of the same criticisms were being made...
...study of wifely frustrations, some were not sure how they liked it. Valerie's angular movements seemed almost as if they had been laid out with a carpenter's rule. Later, most found it easier to applaud her powerful adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying...
Perilous Prose. Fortnight ago she gave her new Domino Furioso, with music by her Brazilian-born Pianist-Husband Bernardo Segall. As in The Desperate Heart and As I Lay Dying, she had employed a narrator. In Domino, a loose theatrical piece about Harlequins, Columbines and Pierrots who rebel against their playwright, there was more narration than choreography...