Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...appealed directly to the U. S. Supreme Court for a full test of the points raised against the 18th Amendment. Sweeping aside all the judge's erudite views, the Government flatly contended that he had erred, that the Amendment's ratification had been thoroughly proper and legal. Lay speculation thereafter ran riot in an effort to unearth Supreme Court decisions which would bear directly on the issue. Precedent. In 1920 Elihu Root argued the brewers' case before the Supreme Court. According to Judge Clark, Mr. Root invoked the loth Amendment against the 18th only to show that...
Samisen men do not blame the introduction of the saxophone, Radio or the changing morals of the younger generation. As good Buddhists, they lay their troubles to the souls of the thousands of dead cats and dogs which have been slaughtered to make samisen strings, samisen drumheads. To appease these departed spirits, the bronze monument was samisentimentally erected...
...referendum as "unauthorized, unconstitutional and unprecedented." They endorsed all the Wickersham Commission's enforcement bills, appointed a "combined board of Unified Strategy" under gentle, white-haired Mrs. Boole to plan their 1932 fight. They quizzed and cheered Prohibition Director Woodcock. Noticeable was a new but vain demand by lay Prohibitors to be included in the Dry leadership on equal terms with clergymen...
...Egypt, a steamer that sank off Finistere in 1922 with a loss of 92 lives, with $5,000,000 in gold and silver bullion in her strong room (TIME, Sept. 8). For eight years salvage crews had searched for the Egypt. Because of the unusual depth at which she lay-426 ft.-none could reach her. The Artiglio did so. At the greatest depth at which divers have ever worked, one of the Artiglio's divers in a special steel pipe suit hauled up the captain's safe...
...plump, broadfaced hausfrau sat quietly in the drawing room of the S. S. Belgenland as it lay in New York harbor last week. Although her eyes were laughing, she seldom glanced away from the frail-looking man with the tousled white hair and big, gentle brown eyes who sat beside her. The room was full of cameras, newsgatherers with vast questions on their tongues...