Word: lolling
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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...
...said Dupesceau, darting a well-formed pink tongue at your correspondents, "have you ever longed to loll on the banks of the Charles...
...Francisco longshoremen got a break last week. While waiting for jobs, they could loll around their homes, get their assignments from the radio. Hitherto they had had to keep telephoning hiring halls to find out what was up-their vital war work suffered from a lot of telephonic confusion...
Young Washington also discouraged going "out your Chamber half drest," warned gentlemen not to let their tongues "Loll out," not to "Puff up the Cheeks," "gnaw your nails," "read other people's letters," and he advised that "Discourse with Men of Business" should be "Short and Comprehensive." "Men of Quality" should not be looked at "full in the Face"; facial expressions should be "pleasant but in Serious Matters Somewhat grave...
...moon was up, dawn was a good hour away, the surf was deep. A Navy-borne British Commando eased up to the coast of northern France. From the dunes between Boulogne and Le Touquet, where vacationing Britons used to loll, Nazi searchlights fingered the Channel. But none found the Commando's barges until the last man in shorts, woolen cap and blackened face had waded ashore...