Word: laying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-one guns were fired again by the harbor forts. The Hoovers went out to where the U. S. S. Utah lay in waiting. The harbor was not smooth. U. S. newsgatherers following by launch were thoroughly seasick. The Utah sailed for Rio de Janeiro with the Hoovers installed in admiral's quarters, the same quarters that General Pershing occupied when the Utah brought his mission home from Peru's centenary celebration...
...Hoover applauded vigorously, stayed late. Early Sunday morning President Irigoyen was at the red-carpeted pier to see his new friends off on the Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires. "Adios" he cried. "Buen Viaje!" A nine-hour run down the river Plata took them to Montevideo, Uruguay harbor-capital. There lay the U.S.S. Utah ready to carry Goodwill to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and home. But not before the Hoovers should have slept a night in Uruguay and dined with President Juan Campisteguy...
...bewildered by this announcement, many a Briton could lay hands on an old copy of Britannia, and jerk it open to the index he would read...
...their service of the muse (consisting mostly of sounds of breaking glass and a song about a certain William, a nautical man) ascend to interrupt my musings upon the good, the beautiful and the true, considering, as I say, these prejudical circumstances, it might be expected that I should lay down on the Christmas number of this edifying periodical a barrage of overripe metaphorical greengroceries and pop bottles...
...speedily drafted, members of the Privy Council assembled in the Audience Chamber adjoining His Majesty's bedroom, and the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Sir William Joynson-Hicks took up his stance in the doorway, facing the Royal bed. Thus the King-Emperor "sat" or rather lay as Chairman of the Privy Council with as little excitement as possible. Slightly rolling over in bed George V listened while Sir William read the Order in Council. Full text...