Word: lamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this the elastic-minded spectator gladly accepts, but the quality of the lines in a bafller. At first they seem to be simply pedestrian, and lame at that. But a glance at the notes assures us that they are "deliberate and caluclated naivetics." That they are so intended we have no right to doubt. But the spectator must decide for himself whether the simplicity on this side of the subtle differs from that on the other side. It is hard not to be skeptical about the value of what so resombles childish buffoonery as the admonition issued by a gatekeeper...
...still convinced that Henri Matisse was a fine painter, gave him carte blanche to decorate the grand staircase of his palace. In his narrow knickerbockers and high laced shoes, Artist Matisse frequented at that time the Moulin Rouge and the Moulin de la Galette, contemplating the dancing cocottes that lame Toulouse-Lautrec had painted so shrewdly a few years earlier. Artist Matisse felt that the farandole, a sort of strumpets' ring-around-a-rosy popular at both music halls, would be a suitable subject for the grand staircase of a Moscow bourgeois, and that is what he sent...
...carrot-topped young teacher that when Cincinnati's Truman & Smith decided to publish a reader for Midwestern moppets everyone recommended him. Methodical Author McGuffey whistled for the neighbors' children, read them each selection before he included it. In the monosyllabic First Reader, small scholars read of the lame dog, cured by a veterinary, which expressed its gratitude by searching out another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation, was rewarded when his employer...
...confound his enemies by the simple process of keeping their names out of his 33 newspapers. Two months ago Publisher Hearst added to his editors' list of unmentionables the name of Stanford University. Since Stanford is a prime athletic newsmaker, Hearstlings struggled over their sports pages, concocted such lame evasions as ''the Indians," "men from the Farm," ''the University at Palo Alto.'" What purpose his ban served only Publisher Hearst knew. What prompted it, however, in the opinion of most observers, was that Stanford had invited to California, right under Mr. Hearst...
...this scared the Radical Socialists, the Popular Front moderate wing, out of their wits. Threatened with the loss of their essential support or with domination by his unruly Communist allies in the next Chamber of Deputies, Leon Blum last week hastened to confer with lame-duck Premier Albert Sarraut...