Word: laying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hypocrisy. They want to make us believe that everything is bad with them. "The Dawes Plan was a great idea- an act. The Dawes conversion of a political question into an economic question was a masterpiece. It was the outcome of a new and better outlook on life. Therein lay its creative merit. But now-much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady horse-trading deal and it may take a long time to sell the horse, if it is sold at all." Obviously nothing was accomplished, last week, in an atmosphere so surcharged...
...Legislature of Quebec was assembled and waiting to be prorogued by Sir Lomer Gouin, His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor. In an anteroom Sir Lomer was rapidly affixing his signature to several dozen last minute bills. Suddenly his heart skipped strangely. Clutching at his side he lay down on a couch...
...shattered last week, at a single blow. Aboard the nearly completed Europa fire broke out simultaneously at four points, deep in the 'tween decks. Every precaution had been taken against such a conflagration. For months the great shipyard of Blohm & Voss at Hamburg, where the Bremen and Europa lay, had been guarded like a military fortress. No one-not even STIMMING himself-was allowed to enter without showing an elaborately documented pass. Certainly Herr Direktor Karl Stimming of the North German Lloyd-a man of such arresting reticence that he keeps even his first name out of the German...
...Moscow they were all magnificently drunk. Comrade Bazarnov, the movie operator, was far too drunk to handle the machine. He sat on the floor playing an accordion and smoking cigarets, while a friend riotously cranked the projector in the doorway and ribbons of celluloid spewed from the machine and lay curled on the floor. The butt of Operator Bazarnov's cigaret fell to the ground. In an instant the projector and the doorway were a mass of flames. Bazarnov, singed, fled for his life. A pitiful few escaped through a trapdoor to the floor below, but 120 were burnt...
...machine leaped into action ? the billion dollar U. S. press. But why? Not because editors had not known that Col. Lindbergh has a half-sister. Not because Mrs. Christie wrote a letter, or because it was printed, or because TIME printed the story about her father. The cause lay deeper...