Word: lays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me to lay a cool hand on the fevered brow of your correspondent from Scranton, Dennis F. Crolly, who was so exercised last week (TIME, April 15) about the matter of legs, Nancy Hanks and the disintegrating influence of the Rue de la Paix as set forth in French Line advertising. Nancy was a fine woman; in that I am in entire agreement with him. If she were alive today, probably the French Line would be proud to offer her a cabin de luxe on the lie de France and I would personally shepherd her from shop to shop...
Hitherto it had proved impossible to gain general acceptance of any definite figure in respect to any of the huge sums involved. But the Young Memorandum, secret, was understood to lay down as fixed beyond all need of further dickering this principle: Germany will pay the Allies not less than the total they owe the United States in War debts-namely...
...assured him that France would not lay down her arms before the day of victory. . . . He looked at me silently, unwilling to lessen my hopes, held my hands in his for a time and then went away...
While freight cars of Mexican corpses lay in the heat and dust of La Reforma, the name of the stalwart Negro buck private John Finezee appeared on the front page of all U. S. papers. Private Finezee was a member of a cavalry patrol of the famed 10th U. S. Cavalry, which discovered a hidden cache of hand grenades that the rebels were attempting to smuggle across the border into Mexico. The rebels appearing a few minutes later to claim their bombs, a brush ensued, in the course of which Private Finezee received a bullet in the chest. Painfully...
...World Conference on Faith and Order (Lausanne, 1927). Devout and dignified, he became the dominant U. S. Episcopal clergyman. He believed in world peace and church union, was opposed to Prohibition. Years ago, he told his family: "There is no special place where I want to be buried. Just lay me to rest where I die." And Lausanne, where no grave may be leased for more than 50 years, is granting leave for him to rest there, in a hillside tomb, in perpetuity...