Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life." Charles Lamb was sent to Christ's Hospital, a London charity school. Thirty-five years later, he wrote of a headmaster: "He had two wigs. The one serene, smiling, freshly powdered, betokening a mild day. The other, an old discolored caxon, denoting frequent and bloody execution. Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong entry into the schoolroom and with turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, 'Od's my life, Sirrah, I have a great mind to whip you,'-then, with as sudden a retracting impulse, fling back into...
...spite of Harvard's constant and ignominious defeats from its great rival, Yale, the annual game was still the most looked-for one in the country. There was undoubtedly good sportsmanship, but games frequently became rough and new. A minor legend of the early Eighties were Ben Lamb's teeth and their effect on the Harvard anatomy during a typically fierce game. The CRIMSON even penned a little poem on them...
...little Lamb...
...every time Lamb bucked the line...
What made the Lamb treat Harvard...