Word: lambe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was forty years ago. In those days such incidents as the following were not uncommon. "A workingman came into my shop with a book under his arm:--Hone's Everyday Book, 1839, with a good many MS. marginal notes signed or initialled "Charles Lamb." He said...
...understand you buy Lamb autographs...
...Hayes, Negro tenor. Last week a Negro soprano, Miss Louetta Chatman, was well received at her first appearance at Aeolian Hall, Manhattan. Although not the first Negro to be heard in recital, she was the first to have been trained by a teacher of her own race ? Wilson Lamb...
Even though the sentence was suspended, the fine appears extraordinarily heavy in comparison with a mere ducking. And not only does it appear unjustly heavy but totally inefficient. For the fiery dame, comparatively, came in to court like a lamb and went out like a lion. While a ducking, if it could have been had, might have dampened her spirits, the only final way of quelling her inconquerable tongue would be to administer the medicine of a certain doctor in Shaw's play. "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife". It will be remembered that this learned physician unloosed...
...Psychological Laboratory. In Part I are recorded the habits of prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than...