Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adult life. Fifteen times an unjust society had called him into court for homicide, assault with intent to kill, and other such vile offenses. And fifteen times the poor fellow, with his reputation nevertheless ruined, was able easily to prove that he was as innocent as a new born lamb...
Among the Faculty members to be approached are Max Lerner, instructor in Government; Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology; Robert K. Lamb '28; Alan R. Sweezy '29; and John Raymond Walsh '31, all instructors in Economics and all residents of Leverett House...
...Lack of information, rumors in the bazaars, ineptitude, bribery; ram, lamb, sheep, mutton or goat twice a day; Somerset Maugham's rains, almost freezing temperature; fleas, lice, dirt; panhandling natives, lepers; a disquieting quietude; camels with halitosis, refractory mules, screaming hyenas, geese which hiss and nip at one's legs, then chortle...
...ironic, smile-provoking reviews of the celluloid strips tripped a bit in his discussion of that stupendous inanity billed as She [TIME, July 22]. I fidgeted through one showing of this insult to my imagination, but was attentive enough to notice that the gentleman preserved in ice "like a lamb chop in aspic'' was not John Vincey, but his valiant servant who had had a terrific encounter with a sabre-toothed monster. John Vincey, on the other hand, was miraculously preserved on a very uncomfortable looking slab, only to be unceremoniously consumed by a powerful potion poured over...
...Lamb Chop's Identity...