Word: lameduck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americanisms to be despised? Henry Louis Mencken, defining them, says "The English seldom devise anything as pungent as rubberneck, ticket-scalper, lameduck, pork-barrel, bootlegger, steamroller (in its political sense). Such exhilarating novelties are produced in the U. S. every day, and large numbers of them come into universal use, and gradually take on literary dignity. They are opposed violently, but they prevail...
Nevertheless, people were puzzled last week when the State Department said it had queried the Peruvian Government to see if Mr. Moore would be an acceptable successor to Miles Poindexter of Spokane, erstwhile Senatorial lameduck, who soon vacates his Ministry at Lima. President Coolidge is most sensitive to criticism of his appointments and people who have not seen Mr. Moore lately still think of him as a Pittsburgher of the burghiest. Why should President Coolidge choose Mr. Moore? 'Why, moreover, should Mr. Moore want to go to Peru...
...Borden Harriman, society authoress: "Writing in The Forum on 'Women in Washington,' I described Ruth Hanna McCormick, wife of 'lameduck' Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, daughter of the late Mark Hanna. Said I: 'With her black eyes and lovely long lines, she has every characteristic of a thoroughbred racing mare...