Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Siamese twins, Mary and her little lamb, Smith Brother beards, are not more indissolubly linked than Gilbert and Sullivan; yet two more disparate temperaments could hardly be imagined. "Gilbert had been born with a genius for petulance, for hostility. Sullivan made friends as naturally as Gilbert made enemies; he was a social creature in whom conformity at times could take on the contours of self-surrender. Gilbert domineered; Sullivan insinuated himself.'' And yet, in their repeated quarrels, it was Gilbert who made the first overtures of reconciliation, it was Gilbert who conceded everything, agreed to Sullivan's wishes, then...
...permit me to enlighten your omniscient Religious Editor. The command to put the blood of the pascal lamb on the two door-posts and on the lintel (Exodus 12, 7) was meant only for that one time, i. e. the time of the actual exodus. This is the accepted opinion of all Talmudic authorities and it is also self evident, since the mark was meant as a signal for the destroying-angel who killed the first born of Egypt to pass over the houses of the Israelites, hence, in subsequent generations when there was no destroying-angel killing Egyptian first...
Lion-like in its beginnings, the convention of U. S. bankers went out like a lamb. Scarcely had the delegates assembled when Representative Louis T. McFadden, chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, introduced the mooted question of credit and the war of the banks and the bulls. He warned that the Federal Reserve policy of tight money might "produce a business slump without intending to do so." On the other hand, he warned that relaxing the policy might result in more credit going "directly into the speculative loans." Between the two horns of the dilemma, he sought...
Others on display include the "Royal Book," printed by William Caxton, the first English printer: the first English edition of "King Arthur and the Round Table," printed in 1557: and the Countess of Pembroke's own copy of Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia." Original manuscripts of Burns, Dickens, Lamb, and Stevenson, complete the collection...
...Lamb is a former editor of the CRIMSON and of the Lampoon...