Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give him his first big killing. He was vacationing at Atlantic City in the spring of 1906 when a hunch told him to sell Union Pacific short in the face of a roaring bull market. Two days later the San Francisco earthquake shook $250,000 into his lap...
...last six words dumped a new problem into Franklin Roosevelt's lap. After five damp days away from the telephone on the yacht Potomac, the President had worked three days in the White House, then had traveled to Hyde Park House for a four-day weekend. There, the day before Lord Lothian returned, he had told the press that the question of advancing credits to Britain had not yet been considered by the Government...
William Frederick Ogden Thomas Jefferson Albert Stifel II '44 of Mower Hall won the Lampoon treasurer hunt yesterday when he found the prize, poison jelly beans and a Spicy Adventure hidden in John Harvard's lap...
...Publisher Emil Hurja fortnight ago flaunted a possible Willkie landslide by as much as 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 votes. Last week his Pathfinder poll dumped the whole outcome in Pennsylvania's lap - whoever won the Keystone State won the election...
Last week, complete with ten singers, a conductor and assistant, two rehearsal pianists, a stage director and a driver, Impresario Wagner's operatic bus fumed out of Manhattan on the first lap of a 5,000-mile run which will take it as far south as Birmingham, Ala., as far north as Pittsfield, Mass. By Friday, when it hit the Lafayette College gymnasium at Easton, Pa., Metropolitan Singers Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan and John Gurney were complaining of the Cuban cigars smoked by fat Conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek in the back seat. But the 550-odd college students who jammed...