Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Described as "a bit of surrealism to end all surrealism" by Ceramist Aitken, the figure was a burlesque of the paintings and parties of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Nov. 26). It was a very white lady with turquoise blue hair, clock faces for breasts and lamb chops sprouting from her shoulders. In a turquoise lined square aperture in her stomach stands a brightly colored vase. A fried egg is in one hand, a blue fish in the other. Around her stomach is a girdle of field mice. Directly in front of her polished thighs are two little football players...
...Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb. . . . and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall...
Last week, as their ancestors had done each 14th of Nisan for 33 centuries, millions of Jews throughout the world retired to their homes to partake in the Passover ceremonies symbolized by eating bitter herbs and unleavened bread, by the presence on the table of a lamb's roasted shank bone in memory of the paschal lambs whose blood had saved their fathers when the Lord smote Egypt. Unmindful were they of those Jews who 19 centuries ago had abandoned their faith to worship Jesus, whose descendants for centuries had at the time of Passover commemorated the Paschal Lamb...
...stage show opens with a unique attraction. Before the very eyes of the audience beautiful paintings are completed in colored sand. They start out looking like nothing in particular and end up beautiful landscapes with all the brilliant color of Maxfield Parrish paintings. Gil Lamb and Schlepperman, of Jack Benny's radio programs, are both good for laughs throughout the rest of the show...
...built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin...