Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange to hear those people shout our names with that Japanese inflection. . . . Better get Rabbit Maranville to do that trick for you. Say, there was the life of the party. ... All their players soon were trying to imitate the Rabbit's trick of catching a ball in his lap while sitting on second base and making those vest pocket catches of pop flies. The crowds fairly roared when they saw those flies bouncing off the heads of their players...
...settle a controversy, he produced a copy of his Contract Bridge Blue Book, gave it to Mr. Jacoby, asked if Mr. Jacoby wanted it autographed. Said Mr. Jacoby: "I do not." A 15-minute argument over rules occurred when Mr. Culbertson dropped the ace of spades into his lap so that it was seen by his opponents but not by his partner...
...beginning of the 17th lap of the Thompson Trophy Race at Chicago last year Capt. Arthur H. Page, U. S. M.C., led the field by nearly a full lap in his swift Curtiss-Hawk. Then, without warning, the ship dove out of line at 200 m. p. h., crashed its pilot to death. No satisfactory explanation of the tragedy was ever reached; but many onlookers, including David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, suspected carbon monoxide. The same hazard-odorless, colorless CO gas from the engine exhaust, soaking into the pilot's blood until lack...
...carol, "Fum, Fum, Fum," a Christmas march from the Catalonian province, and the "Christmas Carol of the Pifferari," a Neapolitan air. The other carols, which have not been sung recently are "Glory to God in the Highest," by Pergolist; "The Five Lesser Joys of Mary," by Warlock, "Upon My Lap My Sovereign Sits," by Pierson; "Christmas Bells," by Osgood; and "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence," by Gustay Holat...
...Alfred Letourner & Marcel Guimbre-tiere, French "Red Devils": the sist riding of Manhattan's Six-Day Bicycle Race, at Madison Square Garden. Second, by a lap lost in the last hour, was a team of French unknowns, Georges Coupry & Michel Pecqueux...