Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millie is not a happy one Disillusion, the result of a hasty and ill advised marriage, sends the young wife from the lap of luxury out into the world to make her way. She does and retains her independence while passing through the hands of several gentlemen. One of these passing fancies, finding himself cast off, seeks to recapture the happiness he found in Millie through her sixteen-year old daughter. After repeated admonitions of "hands off" Millie is forced to shoot him. The last minute testimony of the daughter saves Millie from the law, and a world-wise mother...
...pamphlet, treatise or book on Dr. Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. I am not interested so much in the proof submitted to substantiate the theory as I am in discussion of what the theory is. I am not particularly interested in holding a girl on my lap for an hour or sitting on a hot stove for one minute...
...Lima last week the Earl of Chester was seen to be scribbling on a piece of paper in his lap while the mayor wordily presented him with the Freedom of the City. Rising to give thanks and reading from the scrap of paper, H. R. H. pronounced 71 Spanish words, concluded amid cheers: "Cuando la emocion es grande, el discurso es corto." ("When the emotion is great the speech is short...
Simplest axiom of aviation: "It isn't the flying that's dangerous; it's the coming down." Seated on his father's lap in the cockpit, a 10-year-old could hold a plane on a fairly even course, nearly as easily as holding an automobile to a high way. But to land safely requires judgment and skill born of careful training and long practice. A miscalculation, a false move-and only fate decides whether the mishap shall be trivial or tragic...
...snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal, competing with northwoodsmen who had used snowshoes all their lives. Frank Hoey started ahead and Joie Ray was far back in the pack. His cheeks froze; he tramped through deep snow with his face wrapped in bandages. After the third day's lap he was third, with Hoey still leading. At the finish on the eighth day he trailed, a slow & sorry seventh. Hoey won the $1,250 first prize...