Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week the U. S. Embassy was able to lay before a French military tribunal clear proof that Charles Hartmann of Hollister, Calif, had never left the U. S. since his entrance in 1872, had never been a French citizen. Obviously some rogue had taken advantage of his absence to use his name. Elaborately the tribunal apologized. The accused was free to return to Nordheim where, however, far fewer remembered Hartmann the Californian, than Hartmann...
Colonel Rusteika, head of the Lithuanian secret political police, lay on his bed at Kovno last week snoring soundly. Two young students burst into his bedroom, shot him in the head, stabbed him in the body. Colonel Rusteika is corporeally tough. He did not die. The students were captured. Their confession led straight to the most interesting man in Lithuania, Augustine Waldemaras, Prime Minister-Dictator of Lithuania from...
Simon William Straus, distinguished Manhattan banker, lay ill in his room at the Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue, complained of the din of passing traffic. Policemen came to abate noise in the neighborhood of the Ambassador, arrested one Robert Heller, architect, for tooting his horn...
...cabinet in 1928. As chairman of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd. he has sought to stabilize his violently fluctuating fortunes. In business he has had his usual success and prominence. His heavily lined face and heavy-hanging hands betray his persistent fondness for strong drink. Last fortnight he lay critically ill in London with bronchial pneumonia, but was reported gaining with the aid of blood transfusions...
...than books. In another year they had canvassers all over the Midwest selling those double-ended postcards which nice people used to slide into felt lined holders and peer at through the marvelous lenses that showed you the real Matterhorn, the actual "Scene at Brighton Beach." Aware that prosperity lay in "World Educational" pictures, the brothers shouldered their bulky cameras and in 1896 went to Europe. They "did" Egypt, Palestine, the Orient, establishing foreign offices as they went...