Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arcs. Four months ago "Vinegar Joe" started out from Ledo in India on the first lap of the campaign that few thought would succeed. He had about two divisions of American-trained Chinese and a group of American and Chinese guerrilla fighters led by Brigadier General Frank Merrill. As Stilwell fought his way southeast through rugged country and equally rugged Japanese, engineers followed close behind, building a macadam highway...
...White Cliffs of Dover (M.G.M.) is an exquisite cinematic equivalent of the late Alice Duer Miller's best-selling poem of that title - which, for all its sincerity, can be most kindly described as lap-doggerel. The picture, which is a 126-minute apostrophe to Beau Geste Britons and a Beau Geste Britain, may be most kindly described as somewhat pish and more than a little posh. It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams...
...oils were landscapes of California, Texas, Brazil, some still lifes, several portraits. One large canvas pictured a monumental, seated Frieda Lawrence (widow of late great Brit ish Novelist D. H. Lawrence), her chill eyes peering from a heavy face, fringes of her shawl spilling like black blood from her lap...
Photographers who had waited outside jammed plates into their cameras, snapped the most startling U.S. newspicture (see cut) since a press agent set a midget on J. P. Morgan's lap in 1933. One Ward executive suggested putting the picture on the cover of Ward's next catalogue, with a caption "We take orders from everybody." Put down on the sidewalk, Sewell Avery bowed slightly to his carriers, walked across the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad tracks to a waiting limousine...
...England-not all England, mind you, just England. . . . Once, in the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Canterbury arrived first at a meeting and proceeded to take the head chair. Then the Archbishop of York arrived. Not to be outdone, he sat on the Archbishop of Canterbury's lap. I hope to heaven the Archbishop of Canterbury never attempts to sit on my lap...