Word: lolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the F.B.I, closed in on Banker Crowe. Getting panicky, he had abandoned his new car, bought another only to abandon it too. He settled down in Daytona Beach, to loll on the beaches and roll around the bars. In a bar they arrested...
Williams, who does pushups every morning to strengthen his wrists and forearm muscles, DiMag frowns on off-the-field exercise, likes to loll in bed until 10 a.m. or later. He is also fond of his food: "I don't diet. I believe in three square meals a day and I'm not ashamed to say I'm nuts about spaghetti...
...Shed seemed content to loll on the slew grass and be petted by his owner, Paul Bakewell III, a wealthy St. Louis sportsman. There was no fear in Shed's demeanor as he took his place on the line, as there was in some of the younger dogs, and that was a good sign; but he no longer trembled with excitement either...
...Navigator. He likes to play the fiddle (favorite composers: Bach, Mozart), and to sail a boat. In sailing, his system is to set the sail, make it fast, and with no thought of velocity or energy, loll back while the boat drifts. He smokes a pipe, but never drinks...
Gentle Cartoonist McCutcheon began thinking of calling it quits about the time Bertie McCormick began flogging the New Deal. Retiring now on a fat pension, he plans to loll on his own "Treasure Island" in the Bahamas, poke around the U.S., edit a book of his cartoons. As he once cracked in an after-dinner speech: "I draw to a close, perhaps one of my most successful drawings...