Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careened into an embankment. The fusillade continued: 167 shots. 50 of which hit the occupants. Barrow was found with the door of the car half-open and a sawed-off shotgun in his hand. Bonnie Parker, wearing a red dress, was doubled up with a submachine gun in her lap. There were two other machine guns, another sawed-off automatic shotgun, six automatic pistols, a revolver, a saxophone, sheet music, a half-eaten sandwich, a bloody package of cigarets, and $507 in cash in the car. "I hated," said Captain Hamer, "to bust a cap on a woman, especially when...
...President: "I hereby resign effective this day my office as Collector of Internal Revenue, District of Michigan. "Horatio J. Abbott." Next day Mr. Morgenthau suspended Deputy Collector Tighe and another one-time Abbott appointee, dumped a mass of evidence on campaign cash-collecting by jobholders into the lap of Attorney General Cummings. Keeping well out of the Democratic cleanup, Michigan's Republican Senator Vandenberg remarked: "As long as they run their own laundry, I see no reason to get soap in my eyes...
...attend such freak shows, Authors Bodin & Hershey have written a book that answers all conceivable questions about these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between three and four feet tall, though some (notably the one who was photographed on J. P. Morgan's lap during a Senate investigation last year) are as tiny as 1 ft. 9 in. Midgets bitterly resent being miscalled dwarfs, who are usually misshapen or deformed. Usually born normal, and of normal parents, midgets invariably produce normal children. Though many of the earth's 2,000 living midgets come...
Though most midgets who earn their own living do it by exhibiting themselves, Authors Bodin & Hershey list midget architects, realtors, brokers, restaurateurs, watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news...
...long as the world bought Zion candy bars, Zion cookies. Zion lace, Zion books and Zion cement it could smile as it would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from...