Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only has it a Latin quotation prefixed to it but it has also a whole separate section of notes and a very full bibliography. It has managed, however, to escape the customary heavy historical style and reads suspiciously like a historical novel rather than a genuine history. And Mr. Lamb has seen fit to omit substantiating footnotes...
...very far from the truth. The story of Genghis Khan, the struggles of his childhood, the hardships of his early manhood, his growing success, and finally his great achievements culminating in the acquisition of an empire stretching from China to Arabia, could not fail to be interesting. Mr. Lamb's style, while not distinguished, is thoroughly adequate for the subject. It is fluent and easy to read, although the author has a rather distressing habit of omitting the verb from short sentences from time to time, a la francaise...
...Lamb has given us a colorful and stirring account of the career of a great conqueror, and if we may criticize the lack of documentation, we must remember the intrinsic difficulty of the subject and be thankful for a thoroughly readable account of what in other hands might be a very heavy subject...
...Baker's friend, Secretary Munson Havens of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, is the author of a concise and accurate sketch of Mr. Baker: "His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Sunday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic...
...Cheshire Cheese, famed London eating house, where luscious mutton chops, sizzling steaks, lean cold lamb, stodgy but satisfying beefsteak puddings and, last but by no means least, palate-tickling lark puddings are served to as many U. S. men and women in London as are wont to drink at the Ritz Bar in Paris?this old London "coffee house" celebrated last week the opening of the winter pudding season with its 152nd annual dinner...