Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below last year's record 28 billion Ibs. Southwest drought has cut into cattle supply and hog farmers are marketing fewer porkers to avoid last year's glut. Chicago wholesale prices: beef, 7% to 16% higher than this time last year; pork, up 37% ; lamb...
...questions because she knows that that is Van Doren's game, will probably stick to her plunger's game in the return match. "If you're going to be killed," she said, "be killed for a lion instead of a lamb...
Family & Early Life: Greatgrandfather was a political émigré who fled Austrian rule in Italy after Napoleonic Wars, settled down in England in Lamb House, Rye (later the home of Novelist Henry James) with his bride, a cousin of Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Young Harold Caccia (pronounced Catch-a) went to Eton, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford...
...long years Lamb dreamed of retiring from the East India Company and devoting his retirement to literature. But when at last the dream came true, he found it more nearly a nightmare: he was bored to tears. Mary grew madder, Charles grew sadder-and Londoners became used to the undignified spectacle of drunken Charles being "absolutely carried home upon a man's shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing...
...difficulty with Lamb is to see him whole. Some see only the mischievous little drunkard who "taught one little girl to say the Lord's Prayer backwards," tweaked William Wordsworth's nose and addressed him as, "You rascally old Lake poet!" Some see him as an overelaborate, rather cute stylist; others brush aside what they feel are merely trappings and hail Lamb as one of the kindest, most generous men that ever lived. Editor Matthews manages to include all these Lambs in his selection and to write what is probably the truest, briefest epitaph: "His friends loved...