Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...riders pedaled, jammed, sprinted, drank beef juice out of paper cups, pasted their burned legs with plaster, until a gun was fired off three times and Franco Georgetti and Gerard Debaets posed for flashlights holding the big bouquets that go to the winners. They had won by a single lap after 2,162 miles of pedaling...
...through the race. Brocco, 43-year old champion trying to come back, pedaled till his rheumatic legs stiffened like hooks, forcing him out. A visiting band announced that as a tribute to Veteran Frederick Spencer they would play "When You and I Were Young Maggie." Furious, Spencer gained a lap. In the gallery Spectator James Miglio was mauled by a special detective, led off to court in his undershirt and trousers. The band played "Among My Souvenirs." As is usual in six-day races the records of all previous six-day races in lap-stealing, attendance, and the eating...
...married only a year when a brunette (Myrna Loy) crinkled her eyes at him, and he temporarily forgot all vows. The brunette borrowed his cigaret lighter, a present from his wife, and May discovers all. Alarmed, she telephones a mauve musician (Andre Beranger) and the two slip under the lap robes of the car in which the philandering pair are taking a speedy moonlight, midnight drive...
...probably an inevitable failure, but nevertheless a fact. Just-So Stories for Little Sots makes no pretense of doing more than riding the pun pretty hard, and comes off a winner. Little Peggy and the Old Album mounts a spirited hoss, which does well enough for the first lap, but he hasn't much wind...
...Honor System, which has lately been the pivot of a small tempest at Yale, is now on the lap of the gods. The Student Council is weary of thanklessly juggling the university's morals and has sought deliverance from its travails. The Faculty shows no enthusiasm for a return to Faculty supervision in the sense of watching for cribbers, but will not tolerate a total absence of regulation. Finally, the undergraduates themselves have arrived at a state of general apathy concerning the issue...