Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that by that time prospective buyers are back in town. Another good reason is that most artists do their biggest wad of work in the summer, have it ready for exhibition in the autumn. By last week the first fruits of the old season were already tumbling into the lap...
...fondled Wunderkind, he sat in the Empress Maria Theresa's lap, was petted by Madame de Pompadour, spent hours playing private concerts for England's demented music-loving George III. But chronic improvidence and a generous nature gradually brought him into a tangle of debts and grinding responsibilities...
...malaria, died in Long's arms. Long saw to Timi's burial, then sailed on to London, stayed a year, wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from California to sail the last lap with him. Prime experience on a 75-day Atlantic crossing was getting overhauled in the Bay of Biscay by a Spanish Rightist patrol and being jailed overnight as would-be assassins of General Franco...
Many of these Austrian veterans, although they are Italian subjects today, have been loudly agitating for the merging of Italian Tyrol with Greater Germany (TIME, June 13). Italians hope they will now lap up their Fascist gravy quietly and stop crying for Nazification...
...Alagi, 12-litre hydroplane owned and driven by Italian Count Theo Rossi (vermouth) : the Gold Cup, No. 1 U. S. motorboat trophy; averaging 64 m.p.h. over a 90-mile course (three ten-lap heats); on the Detroit River, off Detroit...