Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upstairs reporters found Lockhart cringing in his cell. He had two more confessions to make. One was that he had escaped from a Georgia chain gang in 1931 after assaulting another girl. The other was that his real name was B. B. ("Bunce'') Napier. On his trembling lap lay a Bible opened to Matthew 7: 1-2: Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Napier said he guessed he knew how Leo Frank felt that...
...confused with the caucus room of the Senate Office Building where the midget sat on John P. Morgan's lap last June...
While planes and dogsleds took the saved 102 on the next lap to Providence Bay, a storm of joy and admiration swept all Russia. To the score of rescue pilots and their mechanics Stalin wired: "We are proud of your victory over Nature." He awarded them Soviet Russia's top decoration, the Order of Lenin, gave them a year's pay. Feeling that this was still inadequate he created a new title, "Hero of the Soviet Union," and made them all Heroes. To the 102 who had been rescued he awarded the Order of the Red Star...
Potshots at the President-elect, a bank holiday, a many-decked New Deal, a World Fair, Mae West, the midget on Mr. Morgan's lap, Repeal, Rolphing- last year they all laid headlines across the country, inked rotogravures, filled newsreels drumtight and gave Vanity Fair's (then) Cinemacritic Pare Lorentz an idea. With an eye on Laurence Stallings' photostory, The First World War (whose pictures have boomed in more than 50 newspapers-TIME, Feb. 26), Cinemacritic Lorentz edited the pictures of the first New Deal year, pictures of the war on Depression. Last week he published...
...pages. But heartened by the reception accorded its discovery of the Thayer letters, the F. T. C. last week let it be known that it would continue through the summer. Taking a tip from Ferdinand Pecora, it darkly hinted at some "especially" exciting revelation for the final lap...