Word: lamely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted (63-10-7) for the sixth time a resolution by Nebraska's Norris to amend the Constitution for the elimination of the short ("lame duck") session of Congress; sent it to the House where Speaker Garner promised it favorable consideration...
...Lord, who will make us lame...
Although New York's lame Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt is today the leading Democratic candidate, he is far from being the unanimous choice of his party. A faction, supposedly led by Messrs. Smith, Raskob & Baruch, with support in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois, objects to Mr. Roosevelt's nomination on three grounds: 1) he is too Dry a Wet; 2) he is too radical on water power; 3) he is too unsteady economically. Long has the anti-Roosevelt group been casting around for a candidate of its own. Last week it looked as if Governor Ritchie, thoroughly...
...Parker and his troupe went touring-from Buffalo early last month, continuing in Colorado. Utah, Oregon and California last week. Everywhere, audiences seem to represent a class which could not be won by smart, theatrical revivalism. To city theatres, churches, convention halls go elderly, placid people, some blind, some lame or halt, who might not have gone out since the last Chautauqua or travelog in the church basement. They see "Seth Parker and his Jonesport Neighbors" performed with no "props" save a fireplace, chairs and the melodeon. Of plot the entertainment has little; to get the actors off stage...
...boastful, but all credit him with shrewdness. His success is largely due to three practices: severest economy (his magazines are published in an old office building where about $50 a month rent is chargeable to each), payment in cash, willingness to take a quick loss rather than nurse a lame publication...