Word: loll
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loll on the deck of a tanker, coatless, hatless, collarless, vestless, and with no photographers about-ah boys! that is an ideal holiday for a politician. Most people think of a tanker as a dirty old tub. It is nothing of the sort. The food is excellent, and the sleeping accommodations as good as on any liner...
...Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The tribulations of the strike had worn him to a frazzle, threatened him with a nervous breakdown. On "leave of absence" he had gone to his summer home at Bay St. Louis, Miss., 50 miles away, to loll in the warm waters of the Gulf...
...regime has been successful, partly because he blended efficiency with tradition: it would have been dangerous to apply rigid card-index methods to the University of Virginia, where Southern bloods are wont to loll on the lawn and contemplate the architectural works of Founder Thomas Jefferson...
...state of society which he envisions. Everyone knows that he haggles and drives the sharpest of bargains whenever he sells a manuscript. He exploits his unique gifts far more avariciously than a Capitalistic Trust exploits any monopoly. At present Pen Man Shaw can and does loll in luxury upon his royalties, enjoying profits of a nature which he delights to describe as "unjust and illogical...
...Mellon, the President determined to do so in privacy. Early in the morning he and Mrs. Coolidge slipped downstairs and tacked up bed sheets in such a way as to completely screen the piazza. Later in the day, when the conference took place, the Chief Executive was able to loll in the Gloucester hammock, shielded by the sheets from the curious and the sun. Before Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot quitted their sturdy porch chairs the irreducible terms to be granted Belgium had been fixed, the all-important interest rate of the Belgian moratorium was settled...