Word: lambing
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...Durocher ["Leo the Lamb," July 28] a gourmet?! Absurd! If my son's godfather has ever had anything other than steak and potatoes for dinner, it was because the menu was in French and he didn't know what he was ordering...
...Quoth the Lamb forevermore: "Jackson is a very old friend of mine, but I'm still a gourmet...
...Lamb-at least for the moment. "These kids belong to a new generation," he says. "They have to be handled differently...
...Sissified Lamb. Hard work and evangelism came readily to Barton. His father, an itinerant Congregationalist preacher before settling in an Oak Park, Ill, parish, raised his five children on the King James Bible. At 9, Barton was out delivering newspapers. He worked his way through Amherst by selling pots and pans, graduated in the midst of the 1907 panic and eventually turned to magazine writing and editing. A prolific contributor to such periodicals as Redbook and McCall's, he specialized in inspirational articles that were scorned by critics as simplistic pap but had enormous popular appeal...
Most famous of his works was his book-length 1925 study of Jesus Christ, The Man Nobody Knows. Upset that Sunday school teachers often reduced Jesus to a "sissified Mary's little lamb," Barton set out to prove that, in truth, he was a real get-up-and-go type. "He was the most popular dinner guest in Jerusalem," wrote Barton. "A failure! He picked twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world." The Man topped the bestseller list for two years, inspired Barton to produce He Upset...