Search Details

Word: layings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...sympathetic performances of its cast. Robert Montgomery is splendid as the killer, and although Rosalind Russel's portrayal of combined fascination and revulsion is rather unpleasant to behold, her performance is excellent. Dane May Whitty is excellent as an unsuspecting hypochondriac, but Merle Tottenham ad Kathleen Harrison lay on the cockney a little too thickly...

Author: By V. F., | Title: AT LOEW'S STATE | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

Massive law books lay scattered around them in disorder, admonishing the sun for making Spring so evident, and all the little creatures of the grassy world crawled over the green book bags seeking the nature of this new kind of grass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...Connibear began by studying physics, reading books on rowing. Having mastered rowing theory, he devised his own means of putting it into practice. He raised the rigging in the boat to give more clearance above his oarsmen's thighs, thus permitting more leg power. He cut short the "lay-back," theretofore considered the most essential part of the stroke. Unfamiliar with nautical terms, Connibear coached his crews in baseball slang. Before his first big race, the Washington faculty tried to have him ousted. After it, when Washington had beaten California, he was a Washington hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Compton Cup and Connibear | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Father Divine disappeared before police could lay hands upon him. An alarm went out for his arrest, for felonious assault and "acting in concert" with three other Negroes whom police charged with stab bing Greene. For the podgy little Messiah who claims 30,000,000 followers (and has about 50,000), there then followed other misfortunes. First of these was the apostasy of his fat, capable right hand, "Faithful Mary" (Viola Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Messiah's Troubles | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

This meeting will open July 12 and will resent views of professional and lay leaders in the camp program and other adult education movements. Last year about 200 teachers in C.C.C. camps contend here for a shorter session, and are examined at the end of the conference given as a course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER SCHOOL WANTS C.C.C. SCHOLARS AROUND | 4/27/1937 | See Source »

Previous | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | Next