Word: lapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...opening of the second week at the Metropolitan was no less a triumph for Maria Jeritza, Lohenarin her medium. Other features of the second lap of the season in that temple of patrician appreciation were Andrea Chenier and The Tales of Hoffmann (revival)-well-tried pieces both...
...Greenville. Cotton lands and wheat lands, sage lands and deltas. As the sun was sinking again, it reached Fort Worth, where it was moored within half a mile of the only plant in the world which produces the helium that fills its belly. So was ended the first lap of the journey. The time was 34 hours. The distance was approximately 1,400 miles...
...Rome with a mistress because his father demands his return to Wall Street. Failing to write his music in Paris, he slides down the scale and is 'next discovered in a Port Said brothel. Ably assisted by quantities of dope, he murders a cockney sailor man. His last lap is in the Marquesas where he comes down with leprosy. In the brief remaining years of sanitay he is supposed to have contrived the symphony...
...sweet birds of the Lord With earth's waters make accord: The Muses' sacred grove be wet With the red dew of Olivet, And Sappho lay her burning brows In white Cecilia's lap of snows...
...233es no end, upon a hulking lover she kept all unfortunately. In Maple Valley, she is welcomed for having been baptized there. Ella Poore was her Main Street name and since she left there have sprung up a new depot, waterworks, brick paving. The Countess is euchred, kettle-drummed, lap-suppered, picnicked, violently bored in every small-town way. Then up turns Gareth Johns, curly-headed, 17, and articulate. She enfolds him in her ample eroticism, he in his hunger for the horizon. Off they go together to the everlasting hurt of Lennie Colman, Gareth's tragic schoolmarm. Village...