Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profaneness of the English Stage, an eminent churchman, the Rev. Jeremy Collier inveighed against the hero of Love for Love: "He is a prodigal debauchee, unnatural, and profane, obscene, saucy, and undutiful; and yet this libertine is crowned for the man of merit, has his wishes thrown into his lap. . . ." Congreve replied nervously, and not altogether convincingly, that he was doing a useful social work in painting "the vices and follies of human kind...
...think Ike will measure up to his new job and help education win a lap from its apocalyptic detractors. Would that we had more men like him to help us in our greatest battle: the fight for individual maturity...
...girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until she ran off to Columbia last year, signed Beryl, and agreed to help coach her into the U.S. big time, a complicated and careful process that involves picking songs that are right for her, enveloping her in publicity and the right kind of clothes (sexy...
Last week Giuliano took a political position: while his band was attacking Communist headquarters in two Sicilian towns, the bandit himself put an advertisement in the newspapers declaring his undying enmity toward the "Red gangsters who want to throw us into the lap of that terrible Russia...
...Lap Dog. In Akron, Ohio, Bernice L. Wise sued a cafe proprietor for damages, complained that while in the café she had been bitten by one of two Pomeranians in their cups...