Word: lambe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course questions followed. It developed that the two gentlemen were Commissioner Edward J. Higgins, Chief of Staff of her brother General Bramwell Booth, (of England), and Captain David Lamb, both sent over quietly from London headquarters...
Professor Horace Lamb, the Association's 75-year old President, a Cambridge mathematics man of great note, put matters in motion with a resume of the modern description of Earth's age and structure. Age?"definitely between one and 10 billion years" as estimated by timing the decomposition of uranium and other radioactive elements. Structure?a hades-hot metallic core, rigid as steel; then an envelope of viscous material, kept fluid by enormous pressure, not heat conducting, having faint tides, upon which the earth's ,crust "floats". The elasticity of the envelope which is 60 miles beneath the crust...
Flesh, by Arthur J. Lamb, is another of those things that go down in one's recollection as a great experience. Veteran scribes of the theatre, comparing notes, decided that, on the whole, it was the worst thing they had ever seen in a first-line Broadway playhouse. The plot dealt with a girl who substituted herself for a harlot when her lover tried to take an evening off. So thoroughly ludicrous was the enterprise that the audience hooted with amusement. This has happened, in moderation, before. Never before has one of the actors in a piece actually broken down...
...second new chair in the same field has also been announced. It is to be called the Sheldon Emery Professorship or Organic Chemistry and Professor A. B. Lamb, director of the Chemical Laboratory, will he the first incumbent. Professor Lamb is a graduate of Tufts College and has secured his master's and doctor's degrees at Harvard...
...missionary Bibles to leap out grimacing and twitching, whenever a buck preacher smote the Book with his barrelhouse fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, all are part of that Dark Music. Mississippi roustabouts, limber blackamoors on sunbaked levees hummed it, strummed it; prancing shadows in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans heard it and humped...