Word: lambtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week Clarence Howe, who has worked long & hard as wartime Munitions Minister, squeezed in a round of golf at the Lambton Golf & Country Club (near Toronto). He dropped his indifferent golfing before the 18th hole, headed for the locker room, showered, then went to the club tavern for pie and coffee. Before he finished, six men barged...
...Slammin' Sam Snead of Hot Springs, Va.: the Canadian Open golf championship; for the third time in four years; with a 72-hole total of 274 (71-68-66-69); over the Lambton golf course, Toronto. Snead, one of the world's greatest shotmakers, has never won a national U.S. golf championship...
Next to a good reliable ghost, a Family Curse is one of the most hallowed appurtenances of British nobility. Last week a fine old Family Curse made a fine news story. Twenty-year-old Viscount Lambton, son and heir of the 5th Earl of Durham, lay dead by "suicide while of unsound mind," according to a coroner's jury. The folk of Northumberland knew that the Curse of the Worm had struck again...
...Worm of Lambton was fished out of the River Wear at the time of the Crusades by Sir John Lambton, angling godlessly on Sunday. Uncommonly ugly and uncommonly strong, the Worm escaped from the well into which he threw it and grew so huge that it would wrap itself many times around a nearby hill. It devastated the countryside and when cut into pieces reunited and slew its attackers. A local witch told Sir John he could kill it if he would fix razor blades to his armor and vow to kill the first living thing he saw after vanquishing...
...centuries, the Curse of the Worm is apparently regaining power. The suicidal Viscount's uncle was killed in World War I. One cousin disappeared from a liner, another died in a car smash. Two years ago his grandmother was killed by a fall. When he was ten, young Lambton himself disappeared mysteriously for several days. One night last week servants heard the Viscount in the kitchen cooking his usual midnight snack of ham & eggs. Next morning they found him sprawled in a fountain on the castle lawn, his brains blown out by a charge from...