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...position among pop-record producers. Once a week he throws open the doors of his audition room in the hope of hearing a tune that is "right" for one of his stable of singers-Johnnie Ray (Cry), Jimmy Boyd (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus), Frankie Lame (High Noon). Jo Stafford (Jambalaya), or Clooney. In four or five hours he receives a parade of professional managers, may sample 50 or more new songs while he sits spooning yoghurt or munching hard-boiled eggs...
...comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.* Stressing story instead of unadulterated slapstick, The Stooge plays it for chuckles rather than belly laughs. Dean is a song & dance man with an accordion and a swelled head, who is only a dim light on the Great White Way until lame-brained Jerry becomes his comic foil...
...rest on gouty feet are hobbling lame...
...Agency, left New York's Idlewild Airport on an eight-week, government-financed, round-the-world trip for a series of social welfare conferences in India, despite the protest of Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa. Gross, who thought the junket was flying pretty high for a lame-duck agency boss likely to be replaced a few days after his return, wrote President Truman insisting that the trip be canceled. The answer came at the White House press conference last week: the Ewing trip was none of Gross's business...
Meanwhile, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. settled down in his old Senate office in shirtsleeves and white galluses and got to work briefing himself on military and diplomatic matters. While he worked, his aides started to pack his belongings (Lodge as a lame-duck Senator will have to move out in January). Lodge operated a good deal by phone, refused to say with whom he was planning to confer. A few Washington officials waited a little nervously for the phone to ring. Said Michael McDermott, State Department press officer: the department would be "completely at [Senator Lodge's] disposal...