Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogs' demands were really aimed at the Premier, a sea dog himself. Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito. He promptly invoked a convenient fiscal scandal (the Vice Minister of Finance had been in jail on charges of bribery since mid-May) and the entire Cabinet resigned, leaving everything in the lap of 85-year-old Prince Saionji...
...usual in contests between Bonthron and Cunningham, they had for pacemaker, a miler who two years ago was considered the greatest ever developed in the U. S. - Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania. As usual, they let Venzke lead for the first lap. Cunningham passed him first, Bonthron a little farther on. One hundred and fifty yards from the finish, when Cunningham was 15 yd. ahead and gaining slowly, it looked as if last week's race might be a replica of the one at Princeton three weeks ago when Cunningham won by 40 yd. with a new world...
...Brothers Woodyard - William ("Bill''), 39, Edward Douglas ("Ted"), 37, and Henry Chapman, 35-are sons of the late Representative Harry C. Woodyard of West Virginia. In 1920 a business dispute dumped the Spencer, W. Va. Times-Record into Congressman Woodyard's lap. Father Woodyard put his sons to work on the paper. They liked it, made it earn money. Five years later they acquired a second weekly, then a third, fourth, fifth...
While John Speculator was grumping over the summer listlessness of the stock and commodity markets last week, John Investor was finding plenty to make him smile. Into his lap dropped $800,000,000 in quarterly and semi-annual dividends and bond interest due on or about July i. Chrysler Corp. paid him 25? per share plus an extra 25?. National Lead paid him $1.25, Eastman Kodak, $1, Montgomery Ward Class A, $1.75, Coca Cola, $1.50. Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Bank added $10 to its regular dividend of $6 while First National Bank was paying its customary...
...famed collection of snakes, and for an unnamed sum Mrs. Wiley herself to take care of them and the rest of its reptiles. Only person ever to breed rattlesnakes in captivity, Mrs. Wiley finds her charges "simply adorable," likes to sit sewing with a rattlesnake coiled in her lap "like a contented...