Word: lamed
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...Philadelphia, one Mrs. Mary C. Bletcher, artist, stopped a mail wagon, climbed to the driver's seat, clutched the reins, demanded the driver's arrest for driving a lame horse. Traffic jammed for 45 minutes. Police veterinaries declared the horse...
Into the first volume Dr. McGuffey put monosyllabic fables about busy bees, lame dogs, silly geese, kind cows, cruel boys, inventing the formula of printing a dogmatic MORAL at the end of each lesson, rigidly adhered to throughout the series...
Soon a pretty Tsarist girl, who has Americanized her lame into "Miss Catherine Bary" and became a designer, mounted the stage with a bunch of roses which she extended toward Speaker Kerensky. As he bent forward to accept them she struck him three times across the left cheek with her gloves, screamed in Russian: "By your order my fiance was shot in Russia! I do this to avenge...
...then the French maid tripped by. The cub reporter's French was halt, lame and blind, but he could gesticulate. He detained the maid. He scribbled again...
There was a lame composition about primary slush funds, entitled "Show That Fellow the Door.' They sang Senator Shipstead's farewell to his Farmer-Labor Party and a none too ingenious parody intended to represent Senator James A. Reed...