Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...lend weight to his arguments this lay preacher cited the burlesque shows of the Scollay Square district. Boston countenanced, even stared at, these productions so in all fairness to Art he says that he should be allowed to put on the same kind of thing. He forgets that this machine age is fast forcing culture into the background...
Choice of Assisi as the scene of the wedding was made entirely by Princess Giovanna. St. Francis is her patron saint, she is actually a Tertiary or lay sister...
Artist Lintott painted his first society portrait, after the War, of Lady Diana Manners, as she lay in bed. Since then he has done hundreds, expects to do many more. Privately he hates society jobs, quotes his friend the late great John Singer Sargent that "portrait painting, my boy, is a pimp's profession." One portrait, however, that he thoroughly enjoyed was that of faithful James Miller, ancient, honorable red-nosed steward of Princeton's Ivy Club. Because Artist Lintott painted faithful James smiling quizzically over a silver cocktail shaker, timorous club trustees refused to accept the picture...
...plane, to carry on in case of accident to Lieut. Woodring, was 26-year-old Lieut. William W. Caldwell. Over the Rockies flew the couriers, into a Wyoming blizzard. Lieut. Woodring emerged, after two forced landings. Not until landing in Cleveland next day did he learn that his escort lay dead 70 mi. west of Cheyenne. In the "zero-zero" (no ceiling, no visibility) weather, Lieut. Caldwell had crashed into a fence post trying to land. With bad weather still ahead of him over the Alleghenies, Lieut. Woodring prudently transferred to a consolidated Fleetster piloted by a brother officer, landed...
...well-advertised should find little difficulty in hooking a fish without going through the formality of going fishing. The net result would be a solution of the deb problem for the current season, though there is a feeling that it would take more than one such solution to lay the ghost of the deb business permanently...