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Word: loll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college professors whenever she feels the need of tutelage (there are discussion groups, no lectures, no textbooks). Steadily, humorlessly, the film photographs Joan under the watchful eye of her adviser, or "Don"; Joan on her self-chosen "project"; Joan earnestly typing in a barebacked bathing suit while her friends loll, sunbathe; Joan aiming a camera at two naked tots at the nursery school provided by Sarah Lawrence for students of Child Psychology, Personality Development, and The Family. Like Joan, other student actresses find their texts outside of books, in skeletons, housing projects, surgical operations. But the film skip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Progress's Pilgrim | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Blue-eyed, ruddy and broad of gait, Publisher Lane likes to loll around his new ranch (Quail Hollow) near Santa Cruz in a silk shirt and sombrero. His wife is president of the Palo Alto Garden Club. He has one rule for successful publishing: "Never miss an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sunset Gold | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Doth loll about with just her slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Likes & Dislikes | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...Last week, on its ninetieth anniversary the 11,000-mi. Chicago, Milwaukee. St Paul & Pacific R. R. became the first in the U. S. to begin rebuilding all its 700 cabooses. The Milwaukee is cutting away the cupolas, installing baywindows on each side instead, so trainmen can loll on comfortable cushions while looking ahead. Caboose interiors are being renovated with seats replacing hard benches. The outsides are being painted a snappy black & aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Caboose News | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...concocts a ruse by which he in duces Nils to believe that his good wife is a prostitute. Nils kills himself and his wife (off stage) and Andy loses his job and goes crazy. There are times when this flimsy tale comes to a dead stop and the workmen loll about on their crags ex changing rowdy talk and banter, much like the urchins of Dead End grown older and transported 63 floors up. "What's the purtiest thing in the world?" asks Andy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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