Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means a Bolshevik, Mr. Morrison always turns up at Council meetings in an impeccably pressed tailcoat. He has been called "precise, businesslike, even stodgy, the perfect administrator." On taking office he found in his lap a nest egg of ?2,000,000, salted away in London County Council's treasury by Conservatives. Last week Perfect Administrator Morrison, having run through his nest egg, made London householders wince by taking steps to raise their rates (taxes) to the extortionate percentage of seven shillings in the pound (31%). Said "Next Prime Minister"* Morrison: "The money has gone in treating...
...John Jacob Astor III. Hotel-men, eavesdropping, heard sounds of a quarrel. After an hour, handsome, husky Fisticuffer Fiermonte, whose passport had been taken by the police, left to spend the night with his first wife's brother. Next morning he was off to Rome on the third lap of a wife-to-wife shuttling trip which began three weeks ago when he left the U. S. for a visit with Tosca, only to find that Mrs. Madeleine Fiermonte had tagged along. In Rome he visited Tosca. played with their young son. Meanwhile, police investigated Enzo's Reno...
...times; in the Revised Version the Hebrew word, R'ēm, is translated "wild ox." During the Middle Ages the belief was prevalent that the savage unicorn was soothed by the sight of a virgin, would approach softly and lay his head in a true virgin's lap. Though this notion gave rise to no little scandal, no one managed to trap the elusive beast by virgins or otherwise. A bit of unicorn horn ground to powder was regarded by a medieval physician as the most potent remedy he could administer, but because undisputed horns turned...
Bliss' second place in the half, and the relay team's fourth in the mile completed the point scoring. The Freshman relay team won on Furse's sprint in the last lap...
...sprinting at the finish, that Bonthron had lost it, that Cunningham was as fast as ever. When Cunningham broke the tape he was 2.6 sec. short of his record but he was first by 7 yd. Venzke, who had sprinted into the lead on the next to last lap, was second. Bonthron, in his first start of the season, was third...