Word: lamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak, the players use magnificent gestures and grimaces to convey their emotions, and this very burlesque of over-acting is amusing to moderns. The "immortal Sarah" is a disappointment, for although the cinema may not be her medium, she has no right to shatter dreams by being a dumpy, lame, old woman. Anybody who takes the movies seriously will be fascinated by this page from the past...
...Stockton, Calif, insane asylum last week died a fat old woman with wild white hair and a lame hip. She had been locked up for nearly half a century, happily certain that she was a great, rich lady, babbling endlessly about her memories. She could never keep her story straight, sometimes asserting that she had been married to President Lincoln and General Grant, or that the King of Italy was her foster father, or that she owned the Republic of Guatemala. But the daft old crone was not to be pitied, for she had lived greatly once and her true...
...received from abroad its livest spark plug. Now almost a year old (TIME, March 16 et seq.), the E. P. C. announced that during January and February some 300 speakers, laymen and clergymen will talk for peace in 1,000 U. S. cities. At their head will be a lame British spinster of 60 whom many a religionist considers the greatest preacher of her sex in the world - Dr. A. (for Agnes) Maude Royden. She arrived in Manhattan last week, proceeded to Baltimore for the first speech of a tour which will take her to San Fran cisco and back...
...believes caps it, George Norris had to wait until after he was 70. Not until 1932 when he had been nearly 20 years in the Senate did events begin to run in his direction. In 1932 he won Congressional approval of the 20th Amendment of the Constitution, ending "lame duck" sessions of Congress. Then he secured passage of the Norris-LaGuardia bill restricting the powers of courts to grant injunctions in labor cases and forbidding them to entertain suits based on labor contracts that forbid workers to join unions. Next year followed TVA, to insure Government operation of Muscle Shoals...
...November is a date that needs no explanation. Not so the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. Never has this date meant anything special to anyone, but this year it did. Under an amendment to the U. S. Code, adopted in 1934 after the adoption of the Lame Duck Amendment of the Constitution, the Electoral College met then instead of on the first Wednesday in January...