Word: ewe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State Senators snoozed through the Johnston trial. The citizens of Oklahoma City were so hardened to this form of political revenge that even testimony about Mrs. O.O. Hammonds, the Governor's "ewe lamb" secretary, failed to whip up their lagging interest...
...first day of the trial, many a pair of eyes scanned the senate gallery and focussed on a middle-aged woman-Mrs. O. O. Hammonds. It was because of her that the impeachment proceedings, long rumbling and long delayed, had been labeled the "ewe lamb rebellion" (TIME, Jan. 28). Four days before the opening of the trial, last week, she resigned her office. Governor-Suspend Johnston announced that, if he were acquitted, he would not reappoint her "in any capacity whatsoever...
...Hammonds became Governor Johnston's confidential secretary and a power in the state. Her high-handed tactics with lesser politicians caused the Oklahoma Senate to demand her dismissal. At that time, Governor Johnston described her as a "ewe lamb about to be delivered into the gaping mouths of political wolves." Mrs. Hammonds held her post, and the phrase stuck. Last week's trouble in Oklahoma was promptly labeled The Ewe Lamb Rebellion...
...Hammonds, when asked about The Ewe Lamb Rebellion, last week, said: "I have not thought about it." But L. Howell Lewis, astrologer of Oklahoma City, revealed that Governor Johnston had consulted him frequently during the impeachment proceedings. Astrophysical phenomena can cause no end of things "from short skirts to foaming-at-the-mouth legislatures," said Mr. Lewis. Perhaps he was thinking of two Oklahoma legislators who paused in debate, last fortnight, to threaten each other with paper cutters...
...custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden and 20 for a young widow...