Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamie provided a show within a show. Mamie, sharing a lap robe with Herbert Hoover, smiled and applauded the corniest floats, and when the Purdue University Glee Club serenaded her with the love song of the Chicago sound wagons, Mamie, What a Wonderful Name for the First Lady of the Land, she jumped up and blew kisses. The President stood soldierlike through it all (he spurned the easy way, a concealed stool used by Harry Truman four years ago). He stood at solemn attention for every passing flag, and whenever a contingent of marching women came by, he gallantly doffed...
Meanwhile, if U.S. listeners are determined to have "country" music, Marais will do his best to oblige. He has finished one original operetta called Tony Beaver, with a West Virginia hillbilly theme, and is on the last lap of another...
Steering Committee. In Cheboygan, Mich., the town fathers solemnly passed an ordinance calling for a $5 fine on any motorist caught driving with a woman on his lap...
Invitation to Wander. There, while she rocked back & forth in her chair with her little dog Lolo in her lap, Gertrude Stein talked and talked. She talked, among other things, about America. As Wilder listened, all his lessons-the digging at Rome, Wager's "Every great work was written this morning"-fell into place. Gertrude Stein made a distinction between human nature and the human mind. Human nature, she said, clings to identity, to location in time and place. The human mind has no identity; it gazes at pure existing and pure creating, and "it knows what it knows...
...White's where the Yule's hoary harbinger is secreted between the ice-box and negligee department, the small, ominously green sign reads. "You are required to buy pays your money, yen gets no choice a eat in the lap, a flashlight bulb, and "How many prints d'ya want lady?" "I wanna sled," says the kid. "Next," bawls Santa...