Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masterpiece of the collection is the drawing, "Once Upon A Time." It is a simple sketch of a woman, aged and wrinkled by care and hard work, sitting with hands folded in her lap in a bare tenement room which looks out upon factories and smokestacks. Her face has a far-away expression and every detail of it and of her eyes are so well and carefully done that it is almost possible to see the nearly-forgotten happy memories which are thronging her brain. There are indeed few artists today who could equal the feeling and pathos of this...
...Rose now needed was someone to put up another $125,000 to match his. This he got through Pioneer Pictures from its chief, John Hay Whitney, generous angel of the amusement industry. Last week Mr. Whitney and his aristocratic wife, clad mostly in black sequins and carrying a lap dog, were having the time of their lives shuttling between the three widely separated places where Jumbo was taking final form...
...incurious, the dachshund seems a miserable creature. Too low for dignity or speed, too long to serve as a lap dog, it appears to be recommended only by its melancholy face suggesting an appreciation of its drawbacks. Actually, the dachshund is among the most intelligent and efficient of dogs. It also shows definite signs of becoming the most popular breed in the U. S. Despised during the War, dachshunde suddenly became fashionable half a dozen years ago. Last winter, they outnumbered every other breed at the Westminster Kennel Club show. Last week, at the Lamington, N. J., pony farm...
...most amusing experience I ever had at Harvard was sitting in the lap of that stern old statue located in the middle of the Yard. Gee, I have a picture of it! My boy friend told me that it was John Harvard, and was considered quite sacred by Harvard students, although I believe I saw a picture in the papers several years ago of that same statue with a cute little bull dog posed at its feet. It was that same day that I noticed how intense everyone seemed that I saw on the campus. You young men should relax...
Stothard of Cambridge won a very slow mile from Jack Scheu in 4:26.4, the Crimson captain making a desperate bid on the last lap but failing to overtake the fleet Briton. Koith Brown, lanky aerial artist from New Haven, set a new meet record in the pole vault when he cleared the high stands at 14 feet...