Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balmoral luncheon table lay birthday gifts for the Queen-a diamond and emerald bracelet, linked together in a design of Tudor roses and Scottish thistles, from the King, other presents from the little princesses, Queen Mary, and members of the royal family...
Nevertheless the Governor did not sign the bill. While it lay on his desk he listened to bitter protests from labor leaders who saw in the "otherwise" clause an open invitation to a reactionary court to forbid picketing altogether. Limiting picketing to those on strike precluded even demonstrations by strikers' wives & daughters. Last week one hour before the law would have become effective Governor Murphy vetoed...
These were the instructions of Thomas Vaughn Bodine, 67, gun-toting editor of the Paris (Mo.) Mercury. Then he went to a hospital and died last week of intestinal disease. Two days later his body lay in state from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. alongside the desk where he had worked for half a century. Instructions were carried out to the letter: 350 mourners were handed his obituary, fresh off the clanking press. The new Linotype machine, purchased to celebrate the Mercury's 100th anniversary three months hence, was Editor Bodine's great joy. He had started...
...Winston Churchill, having stalked over to the House of Lords to get the lay of the Government's bill to partition
...lay: Noble Kizer, Purdue University athletic director and head football coach, of nephritis, in La Fayette, Ind.; New York Timesman Walter Duranty, after an abdominal operation, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, famed onetime publisher of the Atchison (Kans.) Globe, of overwork, in Atchison; Bill Owens, captain of the New York Giants professional football team, after an auto collision, in Kingsley, Kans...