Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York said nothing. George E. Brennan, boss Democrat of Illinois, said he could discover no effect on Democratic chances. The loudest gloater, oddly enough, was the majestic New York Times, which said: "When will our dazed friends, the Republican politicians, quit sobbing and sputtering like a child whose china lamb has just been smashed? Their chagrin at the wreck of their plans is intelligible, if somewhat amusing. The pins were all set up, and now they are all knocked down...
...cruisers we are asked to take would give us a woolly-lamb fleet, a kitten fleet...
Steaming gruel, juicy lamb chops, southern -cooked biscuits, crisp bacon all went into Room 19 and came back almost untouched. Doctors, nurses, urged the patient to eat, but Earl Carroll would only turn his head away, answer: "I can't, I can't." In some two months his weight had dropped from 145 to 130 pounds. Propped up on his pillows, eyes closed, long wisps of hair straggling across his high forehead, he lay in what one observer called a state of "cell shock," his mind apparently focussed on the prison sentence that lay before...
...Monroe Sunday dinner menu consists of roast lamb, creamed potatoe's, corn on the cob, cake, orange sauce, tea, coffee, milk or buttermilk?all served for the sum of 13�. The refugees are quartered in regulation army tents...
...there was no Mary, no lamb, there might not have even been a May-flower, a Plymouth Rock, a Jonah, a, may one suggest it, a purple window. Tradition wavered before the onslaught of science. And then came sanity. For this morning the slowest wits of Boston had realized the truth. The Athenaeum had merely played a joke with its story about the non-existence of Mary. A great, great, great etc, grandson of the lamb had told the truth. He had a picture of his ancestors. And there was Mary right beside him. The sun shines once more...