Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...None of the men . . . were able to sit up," she said. "There was one man who looked gaunt and haggard, who had a man lying on top of him. I got his head on my lap. I noticed his face was getting cold and black. He motioned toward his pocket, and I reached and got a cigaret for him. But it was covered with blood. He said, 'Never mind, you're a good kid, carry on.' He started to say 'Mother' but then he stiffened up. ... I said to the officer at the door...
...Raceway at Westbury, L. I., scene of the 300 mi. George Vanderbilt Cup automobile race, was intended to encourage more thrilling, more dangerous speeding, confine the dull, slow driving to seven turns. But on the simplified course this week's Cup contest resolved itself into a grinding 90-lap parade much like last year's except that this time specially-built German, as well as Italian, cars thundered steadily and safely down the straightaways...
...Venzke well in the van, Lash was leading Beccali by 15 yards, with Cunningham and San Romani in the rear, refusing to be rushed. Lash was certain to be winded by the terrific pace. When Venzke dropped out, Lash faltered and Cunningham and San Romani swept into the final lap to pass him. Twenty yards from the finish, San Romani spurted ahead of Cunningham and Lash uncorked his galloping sprint. As far as the spectators could see, they split the tape neck and neck. Both were clocked by their individual timers at 4 min. 7.2 sec., half a second short...
When the story of Labor and its new demands suddenly fell into the lap of the U. S. Press, it was poorly prepared. The number of Grade A Labor specialists among reporters could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Also the story was popping in too many places for any paper to cover it with one man. First move was to handle it like the flood, rush an ace reporter (but not necessarily a Labor specialist) to the scene of greatest violence, rely on the press associations for complete coverage, and tell Washington correspondents to get some quotes...
...magazine stories by Peter B. Kyne, in the person of Comedian Charles Winninger, whose specialty of impersonating vaguely nautical characters was developed on stage and screen in Show Boat. The danger of an old stand-by like Cappy Ricks is that even 1937 cinemaddicts, with their amazing willingness to lap up stale treacle of all sorts, are likely to find him a little too outmoded. The device used to circumvent this possibility in The Go-Getter is the elaborate but effective one of opening the action with the 1935 wreck of the dirigible Macon and presenting, as the picture...