Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creature in her gaudy blue satin dress was Charles Leef, assistant to famed Press-agent Dexter Fellows. "Gangway!" Leef cried. "The smallest lady in the world wants to meet the richest man in the world." Before Banker Morgan knew it, Leef had plunked Lya Graf down on his lap. Newscameras went into frantic action. The spectators roared with amazed amusement. Banker Morgan grinned diffidently as he went through...
...matter of loose ethics, to say the least." Without effort the Hearst Press pointed to the Morgan list as proof of the existence of a SECRET SUPER GOVERNMENT. Baltimore Sun's Cartoonist Duffy drew a picture of a small Uncle Sam sitting on a giant Morgan's lap and captioned: "A Midget Gets a Thrill...
...Code to put the "doughnut," an illuminated paper disc, on the table. In doing so, Code touched the psychic structure in the center of the table. "It felt like the fieshy part of a and, rather rough," the report says of this. A megaphone was pushed into Damon's lap; the discrattied around the table. Walter commented, "My sakes, the child is born...
...Norman W. Church's four-year-old Gallant Sir: the $25,000 Agua Caliente Handicap, in 2:02.6, a shade better than Phar Lap's track record last year; outclassing a field in which he was favored at 1 to 5; at Agua Caliente, Mexico...
...when in the Senate or the Mayor's office. They spend their time, as does an appreciable percentage of our legislators, in concocting frontpage publicity, for their state papers if they are "small-shots," and for nationwide publicity blankets if they are Hucy Longs. And the literate morons lap it up, the intelligent must suffer. But in the end they stop themselves. "Like Hoflin, they become obsessed with their own drivel, they take themselves seriously, grow dull and tiresome." Or else they overplay their hands, poisoning themselves with their own publicity. It is possible that this is already happening...