Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BLOOD OF THE LAMB (275 pp.) -Charles H. Baker Jr.-Rinehart...
...gimlet, and the morals of a beagle") looked pretty Romajean up & down, blinked, licked his lips, and allowed that maybe he could arrange to oblige. So Romajean came to sing in the choir of the Primitive Pentacostal Host Church, and Gudger figured that he had added another tender ewe lamb to his flock. Preacher Gudger's flock was largely old goat and tough mutton: Old Lady Clutiebelle Tippy, Thrash Mancil, Miz Pinniz Nice, Crave Tollett and a few dozen other crackers from the Orange County, Fla. flatwoods...
Florida tourist literature, understandably, keeps pretty mum about this kind of folk, but Novelist Baker claims to have known them all his life and makes out a good case for their being a particularly cussed and ornery lot. Blood of the Lamb is not much of a novel, but it is long on local color, loud piety, snuff, "stump liquor" and local talk...
...critics were more than happy to settle for what they got. Looking at his prints was like seeing a strange world through the wrong end of a telescope. It took a long time to see any of the pictures; each one was loaded with details. Said Charles Lamb: "Other prints we look at, his prints we read...
...says Editor Housman, Wordsworth is the great poet "it is most easy to laugh at, and sometimes the most difficult not to find dull." He was conservative, parochial, smug. "I could have written like Shakespeare," Wordsworth is reported to have said to Charles Lamb, "had I had a mind." "Yes," stammered Lamb, "it was the m-m-mind that was 1-1-lacking...