Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare among cities, Cincinnati lies along her seven hills watching the lordly Ohio lap at her feet. Proud is the Queen City of her Gruen watches, her Ivory soap, her municipally-owned railway which brings her half a million a year, her celebrated zoo and outdoor opera, her beer, her famed families of Longworths and Tafts. Prouder still was she last week. Cincinnati had done for the fifth time what no other U. S. city of comparable size (452.000 pop.) had done twice in succession-reinaugurated a reform municipal government. And Cincinnati was that almost equally rare big town which...
...only defect in the course is the tremendous speed at which it is given. One half year is all the time allotted to dashing through early Christian art to Medieval art through it to Renaissance art, through Renaissance art to modern art, and finally landing somewhat winded in the lap of a post-Impressionist. Professor Edgell strives nobly to make up for the shortness of the time by grinding out words and witty criticisms as if they were sausages coming out of the fastest sausage machine in the world, but interest in his lectures never fags. Although there...
...scooting around to shove him to a flying start. Crouched low over the handlebars, their fundaments raised high, Debaets & Hill pedaled madly. Eleven times they zipped around the bowl, the red-shirted team pulling farther and farther ahead until finally Peden caught up with Hill from behind, and the lap was gained. A dozen times thereafter Hill or Debaets gamely started out to recoup their loss, but Peden & Letourner stuck to them like lice. The closing gun, at midnight, found Peden & Letourner winners by that single lap and 1.354 points for sprints, to the runner-up's 714 points...
...this point the interview was interrupted by a small, white, nondescript dog who was trying to climb into the interviewer's lap. "Johnny, get down," ordered Miss Williams, but Johnny was inclined to be disobedient. "You see, Johnny is really an important member of the cast, even though there was no part written for him in the play. He comes on the stage and whines and misbehaves, and is terribly restless, and doesn't realize he's on the stage. He makes everybody laugh when they should pay attention to the rest...
...into withdrawing the two most offensive paragraphs of her article from copies of the Saturday Review intended for the wholesale news dealers. "But I shall keep on in some other way!" she declared, repeating her determination not to let the British lion remain what she calls "a toothless old lap dog!" Next day itinerant vendors hawked furtively on the streets of London a special, unexpurgated issue of the Saturday Review...