Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evil design with sulfurous similes and purple passion, he dazzles the dewey-eyed teacher from a sticks town in the States and wins her with a round-the-clock courtship. As we suspected, though, fate plays the trump card, and he falls like a lame duck right into her lap. The plot thickens when a rival strumpet, played to perfection by Paulette Goddard, disillusions Olivia about Boyer's soiled past, but the Rumanian's heart of gold, generated in the nick of time by the Hollywood alchemists, wins...
...little man with the Robert Mantell delivery and the uniform of the British lighthouse service got home last week and shed the first strong light on the Atlantic conference. Nearing the last lap of the return, the crew of the Prince of Wales knew they would fetch Winston Churchill home unharmed. All the ack-acks aboard raised a jubilant barrage. Five hundred-odd miles north of the northernmost tip of Britain's isles, their precious charge went ashore at Reykjavik, capital of Kentucky-sized Iceland...
...bowed and hissed their way into control of the independent Government of the Settlement itself, dominated for nearly 100 years by the British. If war should come, the Settlement, guarded only by a handful of U.S. Marines and the small Shanghai Volunteer Corps, must fall into Japan's lap...
Rainer Maria Rilke could serve as a symbol of the best and worst meanings of the word genius. He was a lap dog for cultivated ladies, loveless as a serpent, soaked to the soul in the most indecent self-pity. He was also ruthlessly loyal to the fact of his genius as a poet. Professor Butler looks at him with a level, sane, exacting eye. The result is the first biography and critique of Rilke to be worthy of its subtle, over-culted subject, "the greatest German poet since Hòlderlin...
...most important price news last week was that nothing happened. Plans had been made to introduce in Congress the first price-fixing law in U.S. history. Instead, the whole price-control question was in the President's lap, on the heap with the other defense bottlenecks. The other bottlenecks merely clanked a bit whenever the President stirred; this one smoked. The smoke: inflation...