Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vines, more assured than ever since winning the Wimbledon championship last month, played dazzling tennis for two sets. Prenn got three games in each. Tennis critics, who expect a player with a two-set lead to loaf a little but not let down entirely, were baffled by the third set. Vines dawdled about the court with a pleasant grin while Prenn won six games in a row. When Vines, still loafing, lost the first three games in the third set, it looked to the crowd as though Prenn, the most tenacious tennist in Europe, was going to do the impossible...
There is nothing long and virginal about Emil Ganso. He is short and 40, mustached, a great talker, a feverish cigaret-smoker, with thinning blond hair uncombed, big feet, unpressed suit, unpolished shoes. He lives at Woodstock, N. Y., where he is socially prominent, sometimes bakes a loaf of bread...
...horror, suggests that he become a literary man. Desperately he begins to twiddle with pen & ink, and on the strength of this activity his aunt palms him off as a literary genius on Julia. But Julia soon discovers that Oswald's only genius is to loaf, even in the marriage bed. She takes some lovers on the sly. Oswald discovers her infidelity, goes to complain to his aunt. All he gets from her is hark-from-the-tomb again, for telling on his wife. She assures poor Oswald that some men are born to be cuckolds and that...
...loaf like oafs, to nod like clods seemed the best idea to 40 students at Asbury Park High School, N. J. They were so lazy they would not even bother to be bad. Irked immeasurably by Asbury Park's 40 sluggards, Superintendent of Schools Amos E. Kraybill announced last week he would expel them. "They are wasting their time," he cried, "and their teachers' time and the taxpayers' money." Out they would go, he said, legally or illegally. The Board of Education backed Superintendent Kraybill. But soon Superintendent Kraybill changed his mind. He reprieved the 40 laggards...
...wanted to do something different so his father took him to see his birthplace on University Avenue at 181st Street. He saw the nook under the stairs where his baby-carriage used to stand, the rigging on the firescape where his diapers hung, the grocery next door where a loaf of bread was snatched from his mother's hands because she could not pay immediately...