Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best method was virgin-baiting. A maiden, preferably pretty, necessarily young, was undressed, turned loose in a field. The "vapours" of her virginity, explained zoologists, were what attracted the animal, dissipated his fighting spirit. Docilely the unicorn would approach the maiden, fondle her. Putting his head in her lap he would go to sleep. Then she would summon the huntsmen who would dispatch him. Also, claimed authorities, this was a valuable test 'for virginity. The unicorn, on discovering a hoax, would summarily run the lady through with his sharp horn...
...earth - in full bloom, he set the universe into action at a dizzy pace. Earth, a brisk little body, made her yearly trip around the sun in four minutes. Neighbor Mars required 7.2 min.; poky Jupiter 47.2 min.; Saturn 2 hr., 56 min. Scurrying Venus made her lap in 148 sec.; Mercury, 58 sec. More levers were manipulated and the heavens went through a violent upheaval. Once the sky was settled again into a placid course, the audience were told that they were looking upon the heavens that Galileo studied. Next they saw the heavens by which Columbus navigated...
...seems that the gods in one of their more capricious moments dropped Mr. Richard-Barthelmess into the lap of a wealthy Chinese family and then left him there to make the best of a thoroughly bad situation. Miss Constance Bennett in the role of a soap manufacturer's ebullient daughter contributes the major complications in the form of malignant sex-appeal. Of course, it is the refined variety that this young lady uses on her reticent lover, but it served her purpose...
...Into the lap of Judge Turnbaugh, sitting on the edge of his bed at the Hotel Ohio, the lawyers had dumped the stockholders' battle at midnight Tuesday, while the balloting was taking place. There were Luther M. Day of Cleveland, with his feet on the radiator, arguing for Eaton, and distinguished Newton D. Baker, pulling at his black pipe, arguing for Campbell. The question concerned 51,038 shares of stock, and just what the stock was, and whence it had come, and who could vote it. Now held by the Eaton forces, it had been bought after...
...action takes place on one set that is very good. As for the lines themselves, they suggest the expected epigrams without actually coming up to the standard of the best smart talk. All of the action is amusing if not hilariously comic. As a beginning for the last lap of the college year it is probably the best thing in town at the present moment...