Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party of officers accompanied me on a tour of one of the well-known battle areas a few days ago. ... As we sat and smoked, a great strapping Fuzzy happened along on a fishing expedition. He was handsome with his necklaces and arm bands and his blue lap-lap, and appeared interested in us, so we called him over to our jeep...
...Stamford, Conn, to Denver) to the proposed marriage of his son, Corporal H. E. Dodge III to Margery Gehman, redheaded daughter of a University of Buffalo professor, he announced that he would attend as best man, arrived in Denver 48 hours late, having missed plane connections. Sitting on her lap, he gave his blessing to his new daughter-in-law, told reporters he was in love with 2nd Lieut. Cara Tinsley, an Army nurse now in England. Said he: "She's just perfect." He also heard that his ex-wife No. 3, Martha ("Mickey") Devine, onetime Vanities girl...
...Roger called with the engagement ring in his pocket, Margaret kept him downstairs, murmured tearfully: "Emily hasn't long to live. . . . It's a blow to all of us." Roger left, horrified. Emily phoned Roger, but he did not answer. Reason: Gloria was sitting firmly on his lap...
...gathered amidst pleasant conviviality, piled four or five deep. At one time I had the horrible experience of seeing my girl with four legs and three hands, two of them holding drinks. Then I realized that it was only John Ryan and his girl siting on my girl's lap, thinking, of course, it was a seat. Now, don't get the idea that my girl is fat, because she isn't. It's just that she wears a necklace that looks like a double chin...
...sped around a circular course at 107 m.p.h. At 17, as head of his own company, Hiller Industries, Inc., Stanley was running a $100,000 midget racing auto business. He learned to fly when he was so small that he had to sit in his father's lap to reach the controls. With his father, he invented a machine for casting aluminum; since the war began he has been busy manufacturing cast-aluminum plane parts. Anticipating many postwar uses for this process, Stanley has already designed a cast-aluminum frying pan in which eggs can be cooked without grease...