Word: lamed
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...been announced that Edward of Wales would perform the chore to spare his parents, held the first two courts of the year at Buckingham Palace. Irma, spouse of Jesse Isidor Straus, U. S. Ambassador to France, was presented in what her dressmaker called "a gown of ice-blue silver lame of streamline cut." At a hint from the Queen most debutantes and dowagers omitted lipstick, mascara, rouge. Since Buckingham Palace was distinctly chilly, some of them grumbled at the Lord Chamberlain's requirement that they appear in decollete. Not to be intimidated, several elderly English ladies harassed the Lord...
...papers conjectured whether George St. Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby was likely to burst out crying during the Speech from the Throne, seemed to rather hope he would. Instead the Babe proved himself a Bessborough, did nothing, said nothing, with dignity. Lady Bessborough, gowned by Maggy Rouff in blue and silver lame. made an able substitute Queen Mary, her throat roped with pearls, her head regally supporting a tiara. In legal fiction the Governor General became "the actual person of the King in Canada" when he took the gilded Throne, attended by handsome young Court pages who seated themselves gracefully upon...
...January instead of in the December following. Reason: the 20th Amendment to the Constitution adopted to make the legislative branch of the Government more quickly responsive to the popular will as registered at the polls. Vice President John Nance Garner gaveled to order a Senate which contained not one lame duck. Nebraska's old weary-faced Senator George William Norris, whose 20th Amendment outlawed defeated Congress men from the Capitol, looked and saw what was indeed a lame-duckless session. He shook his head sadly and murmured: "It looks like a picked chicken...
HOLC got off to a slow, clumsy start because President Roosevelt appointed a "lame duck" Congressman from South Carolina named William Francis Stevenson as its chairman. Democrat Stevenson apparently was more interested in giving his relatives and friends jobs in the new Government agency than he was in getting started with mortgage relief. Another cause of initial delay was that mortgage holders were reluctant to swap their liens for HOLC bonds because the bonds were guaranteed by the Government only as to interest. Therefore Congress at its last session guaranteed them as to principal as well. Chairman Stevenson was replaced...
...Lutzenberg did not like conventional photographs iked to do things and make funny poses." Little did Photographer Braue realize that two years later, without his knowledge, his land lord would make a tidy sum peddling his pictures of "Dick" and "Nita" to Manhattan newspapers. That summer Hauptmann had a lame leg, due, he said, to varicose veins. Braue and Miss Lutzenberg never saw him afterward...