Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lap behind'' the times, Oxonians still have the outlook toward sex of the post-War period, when ''intercourse was fashionable" and not taken seriously. Briant estimates 20% of undergraduettes (Oxonian for coeds) and 30% of undergraduates have sex experiences at the university. A popular sport of undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality is no longer...
...started when the Vagabond was munching cinnamon toast and a sleeve knocked over the cup of Lipton tea into his lap. The edges of his coat and the top of his trousers were soaked, so that the persons standing beside the nickle-a-piece victrola and those gnawing at ice cream cones in their cars outside noticed the absurdity and laughed...
...zither, a German-Austrian-Swiss folk instrument, is sometimes called "the mountain piano." A really good zither is a shallow box with 41 wire strings. Laid on the lap or a table, it is played by fingering with the left hand, plinking with a thumb pick and fingers of the right hand...
Adjourning to the roof of the Central High School near the hospital, Photographer Menken again had a bombing raid drop very nearly in his lap. "This time they headed smack for the hospital. Suddenly the leader went into a power dive and pointed directly where I was standing. Two bombs dropped from the plane and I could hear them coming for the building with that terrible whishing sound that says, 'This is Arthur's, this is Arthur's!' I ducked behind a door just in time. My car, which was next to the gate, was punctured...
...films, was summarily out of a job. Reason: an intentionally humorous illustrated advertisement which dentists did not think a bit funny when they saw it in last month's Dental Survey and Oral Hygiene. The illustration: a middle-aged dentist holding his pretty office assistant on his lap. The caption: "Look what you can do with the time you save with F-R solutions...