Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Chase junket was on its homeward lap. After surveying the financial district of Phoenix, Ariz. (pop. 48,000), Chairman Aldrich, Nephew Nelson Rockefeller and the other Chaselings began at San Antonio a seven-day inspection of Texas "conditions." There the party was joined by young Winthrop Rockefeller, who has been "roughnecking" in the oil fields for the Rockefeller Humble Oil & Refining Co. He boarded the car for a few days to visit with his brother Nelson, who is generally regarded as the heir-apparent to all his smart old grandfather's smartness. At Houston Mr. Aldrich confided...
Coincidently, but in a less spectacular manner, the scenery for this year's play, "La Machine Infernale," by Jean Cooteau, will also be transported to town, and the Club will enter upon the last lap of its production. The dress rehearsal, complete with chariot, will be held tonight at 6.30 o'clock, and the play will open tomorrow...
That chance was dumped in the Chamber's lap by two tycoons and the U.S. Press. Feeling an urge to play on Mr. Roosevelt's side, President Lewis Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. and Pickler Howard Heinz hastened to Washington, there to talk with the President and conservative New Dealers. Messrs. Heinz & Brown soon gathered that, if private enterprise could hoist the business curve a notch or two in the next 60 days, there was reasonable hope of keeping the Administration a little to the Right of Centre. With some tangible evidence of Recovery in his hands...
...Camden, N. J., when her husband threatened to kill her, resourceful Mrs. Paul Swicord leaped upon his lap, kissed him repeatedly until police came to her rescue...
Left guard and left half back remain the most doubtful positions, though it begins to look almost certain that Bill Lane, not Bob Brookings, will be the starter in the line job. Whether Freddy Moseley or Chet Litman will have the running back assignment is in the lap of the gods and Eddie Casey...