Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author-Actress. Mrs. Norris says of her life, "It's just neutral." Yet she certainly fits no stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing...
Sad young Walter Lohmann in his first Manhattan appearance, fell off his bicycle and broke his collarbone less than an hour after Jack Dempsey had fired the starting gun. Temperamental little Alfred Letourner, furious with his onetime teammate, harassed Marcel Guimbretiere mercilessly until that rider withdrew, 15 laps behind. For...
Thanking their stars for having such sure-fire publicity dropped in their laps, Representatives McCormack & Dickstein began calling witnesses to expose the "plot." But there did not seem to be any plotters.
On the morrow toothy, nervous King Carol rode out to open Parliament with bland, lumpish little Crown Prince Mihai at his side. From the Throne, His Majesty announced that the Rumanian Army-already larger than the U. S. Army-must be further enlarged and equipped with even better Krupp guns...
It was then discovered that into the royal laps had been thrust not a death-dealing pistol but a petition signed by the man cut down, Captain Alexander Sumar, retired. "I am tubercular," read the Captain's petition. "My disease caused me to be retired from Your Majesty'...