Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reminisced Hero Parke last week: "I thought the President was going to die right there.* I tried to speak to him but he could not recognize me. Mrs. Sarah E. White, the mistress of the waiting room, rushed up and lifted the President's head into her lap. He vomited a little. The station had been empty but the news spread and soon there were several thousand people about us. They got a Pullman mattress and carried the President to a room upstairs...
...serious scrapes. As it was, she had some minor adventures which a mother would have deprecated. When Claudine met her cousin Marcel she thought he was beautiful but girlish, soon discovered she was absolutely right. Her old schoolmate and adorer Luce turned up in Paris, living in the lap of sinful luxury. When Claudine visited Luce's apartment she was first impressed, then disgusted. She discovered the reason why young girls did not go about Paris un attended when she was followed and even pinched by perfect strangers. Cousin Marcel's middle-aged father, Renaud, did not much...
...their grandfather is the President of the U. S? That does not prevent him from keeping in the top right-hand drawer of his desk a glass jar of sticks of peppermint candy. . . . What if a small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather's lap and after them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach the presidential plate. . . . A lightning-like snip is made and a carefully fried egg, prepared for President Hoover himself, disappears into that...
...growing feeling that wage-cuts are inevitable, although the nonunionized steel industry and the highly unionized railroad industry will probably be the two which decide the course of events. Myron Charles Taylor of United States Steel Corp. has said that the entire matter now is "in the lap of the Gods." When he returns from Europe in June the fate of the U.S. wage scale will probably be known. If it is pressed downward, pessimists say that the nation will revert to the long gloom...
Overshadowed only by the vaulting of Brown in Class A was the victory of N. W. Goodhue of Milton Academy in the half-mile run. Goodhue, a prospective recruit for the Class of 1935's track forces, was in third place at the start of the last lap, battled for the lead against Uniacke of Huntington School for 40 yards, and held a four-yard advantage to the tape...