Word: lamely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lame duck was ever better fitted for such a job. Mr. Moses knows news. It was to gratify reporter friends anxious for a Monday morning headline that he dubbed his irreconcilable western colleagues "The Sons of the Wild Jackass." For this mot and the animosities behind it, he was not re-elected to, although he retained, his Presidency pro tem of the Senate throughout the 72nd Congress. His friends believe that his sharp tongue was what really lost him his Senate seat...
...railroads changed the habits of the country almost a century ago, but it took us more than 20 years to pass the lame-duck amendment, which simply gave public recognition to the fact that men travel nowadays on railroads. Thousands of Americans go to Europe now where one went in Washington's day, but when Americans legislate on international relations they still believe that Washington's said the last word on that subject. The frontier disappeared some time before the nineties of the last century, but our legislators have not discovered that fact, and the law still assumes that...
...writer of your critique on Economics, which appeared in last Friday's issue, used rather strong language when he stated, with Olympian finality, of Economics A that "undergraduate opinion almost unanimously would condemn the course as dull to the point of stupidity, uninspiring, and relatively uninstructive." The lame loophole provided by the insertion of the word "almost" cannot exempt the article from considerable criticism...
...passing of the last "lame duck" session in U. S. history was a sombre, subdued affair. The nation was too wracked with troubles for silly songs and partisan chatter. The nearest thing to a joke was cracked by Republican Senate. Leader Watson, defeated for reelection, when he announced that he was "going home with the almost unanimous consent of the people of Indiana...
Wisconsin's Elaine (lame duck). Asked he: "How long does the Senator think he may continue his debate...