Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embassy officials are now confiding to their friends: "He's a great chief!" And last week the interest of U. S. citizens in Germany was aroused when Great Chief Sackett put on his long, heavy, fur-lined coat, sank his square jaw in its black Persian lamb collar, and went out to have a look at the famed Leipzig Fair (TIME, March...
...Author. Author William John Locke, 67, mathematician, schoolteacher, architect, novelist, has been overpraised by the Atlantic Monthly as "the kindliest spirit in English letters since Lamb." Born in Barbados, he was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, taught archi- tecture, became Secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, in 1907 became a fulltime novelist. Schoolmasterly in appearance, pince-nez-ed, Author Locke likes dogs, children. He is married, has one adopted daughter. Fortnight ago Author Locke was seriously ill in his villa on the Riviera, his great & good friend Author E. Phillips Oppenheim at the bedside. Other...
Shattuck and Lamb and their horde...
...Said he: Let all Christians band together, march to the Holy Land, recapture Jerusalem, from the Turks. Once begun, for more than 300 years the Crusades went on; 2,000,000 men, women, children died because of them. The only really successful Crusade was the first, the one Author Lamb tells about: "... a migration, and a journey, and war. All kinds of people joined the marchers, lords and vagabonds, weapon men and peasants, proud ladies and tavern drabs. ... On the shoulders of their jackets they wore a cross, sewn out of cloth, and because of this they were called...
...Author. Author Harold Lamb wrote this book on a Guggenheim Fellowship-($2,500 for one year), followed the path of the Crusaders through Syria. Other books: White Falcon, Marching Sands, House of the Falcon, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan. The Crusades is the March selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club...