Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lamb Chop. He kept Congress in an uproar. He railed against Andrew Volstead and his dry law, once concocted home brew in a Harlem drugstore in a fruitless attempt to get himself arrested. During a speech on high prices, he waved a lamb chop at his congressional colleagues. He helped write the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which banned "yellow-dog" labor contracts and strikebreaking by injunction...
...Lamb & Lectures. In a quarter-century as A.U.B.'s president, Bayard Dodge has done more than any other single American to win and keep good will for the U.S. in the Near East. The friend and teacher of sheiks, princes and prime ministers, he knows how to eat rice and roast lamb the Arab way. He also knows how to lecture his Arab friends like a kindly if somewhat exasperated uncle, without losing their affection or respect. His favorite lecture topics: the inadequacy of "political formulae and agitation" to solve Arab Asia's problems; the need for hard...
This "absolute leader" turned out to be Chicago's Reynolds Pen Co., first and foremost exploiter ($20,857,000 sold in two years) of ball-point pens. But why were Chairman "Milton Reynolds and President Franklin Lamb willing to sell this purported gold mine for a song? Reynolds, who rode around the world in 79 hours in his "Bombshell" (TIME, April 28), said that he wanted to free himself "to devote more time to aviation research." Lamb had a different reason. If he and Reynolds died now without their assets in liquid form, he explained, their families might have...
...wisdom, and it's really there. . . . When I used to sing nursery rhymes to her, she would try to pick out the notes on the piano. Then on St. Patrick's Day last year, she crawled up on the piano bench and played Mary Had a Little Lamb all the way through. I phoned a couple of our friends so they could hear...
When he went on to Harvard to study law, Helen Lamb went along to study at Radcliffe. After they both took their degrees in 1923, they were married...