Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find 800 docile, plump Greek maidens, to bring back to the U. S. with them again. They sought brides who would not make fun of their broken English, who would stay at home and mind the fruit store and raise plenty of children, who knew how to cook lamb kidneys with pilau. Many had already arranged their betrothals. As the Saturnia steamed out, others made a dash for the purser's office to make their choices from a sealed package of 1,000 photographs supplied by Athenian marriage brokers...
Enesco's appearance is made possible by funds left to the Division of Music in the will of H. A. Lamb to provide for annual concerts by foreign artists...
...HAROLD LAMB...
Again Harold Lamb invokes the pageantry of the Mediaeval Orient and tells the history of a great movement of human beings drawn across the world by the power of an idea. He has restored to life the most significant and dramatic moment in human history, that brief moment when all our ancestors of all ranks and degrees were aroused by an unworldly exaltation...
Among the former Fellows of the Foundation in creative writing are Stephen Vincent Benet, whose book "John Brown's Body" written as a Fellow won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Harold Lamb, whose book on the Crusades has recently been published and has been chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for March