Word: lamed
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...Aithrie and Baron Hope sprained his ankle last week. The accident obliged him to cancel all engagements "involving standing or walking." But he was still able to talk, and for many weeks he had promised a most important announcement in his official capacity-Viceroy of India. Last week the lame Lord Linlithgow made his statement. It turned out to be lame...
...could laugh at your homey little piece on Dr. Westrick, the Fuhrer's latest appeasement-seeker in the U. S., if I was sure that no lame-brained tycoons would be taken in by its disarming simplicity...
...season got under way, Del Baker's Tigers began to click-partly because of fiery Shortstop Dick Bartell, but mostly because of the pitching staff. Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit's No. 1 pitcher in 1934-35, recovered his old form after a year in the minors nursing a lame...
Angrily, sourly, in grave disunion, the Convention adjourned. And in the swift days after the grunting delegates entrained for home, the effects showed as clearly as Mr. Roosevelt could have wished. Demo cratic lame ducks Holt of West Virginia and Burke of Nebraska announced for Wendell Willkie; so did Booth Tarkington, Irvin S. Cobb; so did the Louisiana sugar planters, and all the men who bolted Roosevelt...
Textiles. For its growing family of soldiers, the U. S. Army began buying fabrics for uniforms. Lame old American Woolen Co. and other smaller weavers got orders for some 13,000,000 yd. of serge, overcoatings, shirtings, odds & ends. Cotton mills got orders for 930,000 yd. of khaki cotton cloth. Also placed were orders for 176,350 yd. of "army cottons by Treasury Procurement Chief Donald Marr Nelson (lately of Sears, Roebuck), past master in dealing with hundreds of small-time textile companies. Expectation was that Don Nelson might soon be doing more buying for both Army & Navy...