Word: laps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January when the Speakership plunked into his amiable lap, he was happy. In the Speaker's V12 Cadillac he now rides about, the most contented man in the Capital. No less contented is his wife, daughter of one of Nashville's first families, who now can fulfill her social ambition to sit with him above the salt at Washington's official dinner parties. And "Joe" Byrns, from whose mouth a cigar is rarely missing, seldom buys White Owls or Portinas as he used, to, for the world is only too glad to present the Speaker...
...Playfair has been beaten by Versey of Colby on several ocasions, and has not yet proved that he has the finish to outdistance the Colby two-miler, but the only other collegiate runner who can offer him opposition is Kerr of Cornell, whom Playfair beat by a full half lap in their Tri Meet race...
...possible risk of their lives War Minister Hayashi and Navy Minister Osumi negatively replied: "Such is not the duty of the fighting forces!" They dumped responsibility in the lap of Education Minister Matsuda who, with panic in his face, vowed, "We are trying our very best so to educate students that they will not entertain any such theory...
...symphony of sadism--ended when the big man gets to the ropes and is released. He lies on the lap of the ring, rubbing his legs and making gestures of pain and helplessness. The referee begins to count. "Get back in there you yellow dog!" The ogre stands up outside the ropes, bares his teeth, climbs back into the ring. With blood-freezing deliberation he stalks his little opponent, seizes him, takes him over to the ropes and drops him out onto the concrete. As his victim is clambering back into the ring the ogre grabs him by the head...
...more easily. It was easy for the late, great King Rama V to beget 236 girls, 134 boys. It was easy for his successor King Rama VI to take the word of a Christian missionary that polygamy is wrong and beget no boy. This plumped the Crown into the lap of a son of polygamous Rama V who became King Prajadhipok ten years ago and abdicated in England last week with the greatest of ease...