Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable book published last week tells Mozart's story.* The elder Mozart stalked patrons for his son until he was grown. The family needed money but rings and snuffboxes often paid for 18th Century music. Little, bewigged Mozart sat on the Empress Maria Theresa's ample lap. Once he was permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth for six years out of their union of nine. He went deeper & deeper...
...usually permitted to hold the lead for a day or two at the beginning, was still ahead with his large red-haired British Columbian partner, Torchy Peden. Not satisfied with a point-lead over the Belgian team of Van Nevele and de Lille, McNamara and Peden stole a lap in the last ten minutes of the race and held it to the end. Behind the Belgians came the reckless French team of Letourner and Guim-bretiere, who, as is their custom, had been squabbling with each other throughout the race...
...particular bit of action that every audience waits for is the transformation from Jekyll to Hyde. It is done here in close-up, in full sight of the camera. The director has managed a smooth bit of lap-dissolving, a technical tour-deforce. But he has not been as effective or imaginative as Mr. Barrymore, who simply put his hands up before his face and slowly drew them down again to reveal changed features. Again, Mr. March has authority from Stevenson to make some manner of noise during the transformation scene, which involved "the most racking pains . . . a grinding...
...defeat-appeared for the start. It was not a race, hardly even an exhibition, though the ease with which Venzke loped around the track made his pace seem slower than it was. He finished in 4:15, with one of his competitors 40 yards, and the other a lap, behind...
...Noble Guards, Palatine Guards, flabelli bearers (with ostrich fans) he begged all the world to pray God for peace. Among his 35,000 listeners in St Peter's were Signora Rachele Mussolini, and a man who ran up to the sedia gestatoria, threw a paper in the Pope's lap, crying "I want grace! I want grace!" Later Pius XI inquired about the poor fellow, learned he was unemployed, ordered that everything possible be done...