Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...induce. A little later his two companions, bored to no end with this fruitless search around the Hub's winding thoroughfares, turned up a dark, forsaken alley and came to a stop. What to do next? A sudden revelation--they left a note in the sleeping one's lap, hopped out of the car, and disappeared into the night...
...proud and mighty beast, too wise and fleet to let himself be caught, and that a single fine sharp horn grew from his forehead. In the Middle Ages it was believed that if a unicorn saw a virgin he would approach gently, lay his head in her lap...
Thus last week Franklin Roosevelt found back in his lap Florida's ditch which Congress damned, Maine's dam. which Congress ditched. At his press conference newshawks politely asked what he intended to do about them. He replied that he did not intend to carry them on as relief projects on relief money any longer. Washing his hands of Quoddy, on which he had spent $5,500,000, and the Florida Ship Canal, in which he had sunk $5,400,000, the President declared it was now up to Congress to take care of the two White House...
...Scout, convoy on the first lap, had left the Ranpura's side and H. M. S. Veteran was waiting in harbor to begin the second lap, when the treasure ship steamed into the Bay of Gibraltar last week in the midst of a stiff southeaster. The gale picked up the helpless Ranpura, swept it aground on Punta Mala ("Bad Spot") in the northwest corner of the bay. Three Admiralty tugs rushed" to the rescue, but their steel hawsers snapped repeatedly in the foaming seas...
...April sun broke its way through the leaves and made spots on her shining white apron. It was very hot, and Alice's head began to hurt her the way it did when she stayed shut up too long at school. Lifting a small cloth-covered book from her lap, Alice turned over, and lay on her stomach, dangling her feet above...