Word: lamed
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...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...
...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...