Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them well known. Bought before the paint was dry on it in Eugene Speicher's studio at Woodstock, N. Y. was Blue Necklace, a quietly florid and sexual portrait of a girl in a pink bodice, one shoulder strap fallen, brooding over a letter held in her open lap. Others: a sentimental painting of a young girl sewing by Frederick C. Frieseke. a vivid luminosity with figure by Alexander Brook, a nude by Guy Pène du Bois and a swirling composition called Stampeding Bulls by Jon Corbino...
Although the company had apparently judged the temper of its workers more correctly than the Board, the case was not ended, for the ballots of 155 clerks and maintenance men were challenged by both A. F. of L. and C.I.O., and the election was thrown back into the lap cf the Labor Board. The broader question of the case -whether an employer should obey the Board or the bench when their orders conflict-also remained to be settled in what may well be another Supreme Court test of the Wagner...
...midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last lap of her 19,000-mile journey to Hong Kong. She was never seen again...
...potent, three-man U. S. Housing Authority not in a separate agency but under the thumb of Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Thus altered, Bob Wagner's Housing Bill, which now looked as though it would never provide houses for any New Yorkers, was tossed into the lap of the House...
...Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched in light from the window...