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Word: lambs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satin-draped tents pitched on Marianne's lawn. They guzzled 200 bottles of pink champagne (price: $11 a fifth) and torrents of other beverages, ate their way through flocks of guinea hens and a whole salmon (length: I yd.), gaped at one buffet display featuring a woolly lamb surrounded by genuine lamb chops. The swan-song theme was carried out by a dozen huge swans, carved from ice, which graced the tables, plus flocks of smaller black-metal swans dangling from trellises in the yard. While a dance band (Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's), a rhumba outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Those who judge Botteghe by its contributions in English will find a mixed bag. Poet-Novelist Robert Graves (I, Claudius, Sergeant Lamb's America) leads off with The Devil Is a Protestant, a mildly humorous essay contrasting the austerities of Protestant worship and Roman Catholicism's stress on rich symbolisms. Any Graves fan can see that a talented righthander has been giving his left hand a workout. But there are well-written, offbeat stories by such U.S. writers as Alfred Chester and Elizabeth Hardwick that few magazines would try out on their readers. The princess thought they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrow Refuge | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...voice of Abbé Pierre went on: "Empty your attics, Parisians. There may be venerable things in them, but they're less venerable than the lives of babies." As the Abbé strode through a tent shelter late last week, a woman in a chic Persian lamb coat handed him $210 collected from friends. "Monsieur 1'Abbé," she cried. "You have awakened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Empty Your Attics | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Another potential sacrificial lamb comes to town this afternoon to meet the unbeaten Crimson squash team. A lackluster Amherst squad should provide the varsity with its eighth straight win of the season as well as a welcome breather after last week's win over Army. Match time is set for 3 p.m. on the Hemenway courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten Racquetmen Face Amherst Today | 2/13/1954 | See Source »

...LAMB FUNERAL HOME GIBSON CITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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