Word: lamely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seabiscuit" pulled up slightly lame but trainer Tom Smith said no diagnosis could be made immediately. The horse was favoring his right forefoot an he left the track...
...race to Tennessee's Attorney-General Tom Stewart (of Scopes "monkey trial" fame). After Nominee Stewart had gone through the formality of being elected November 8, Senate Financial Clerk Charles F. Pace cut George Berry off the Senate payroll. Clerk Pace assumed that Mr. Berry was not a lame duck but a dead duck, that his tenure as an appointed Senator ended on the election of his successor instead of limping on until the new Congress meets (January 3) and regular Senators-elect are sworn...
...teasing and ingenious rather than effective. As in his Civil War novels (Long Remember, Arouse and Beware, etc.), MacKinlay Kantor has a graphic sense of the U. S. past, writes good descriptive narrative, and creates an atmosphere of tension. But in The Noise of Their Wings he goes lame shuttling between the past and present, and most of his vitality appears to have been exhausted in devising a modern plot. The characters in The Noise of Their Wings resemble real people about as closely as the Smithsonian's well-stuffed passenger pigeon resembles a living dove in Hight...
...pension wave had lesser crests, and in California spring tide seemed at hand. California the wonderland, California the rugged and golden, lies at that edge of the continent where the migrations that made the nation ended. There the last vanguard of pioneers halted and the rearguard of sick, halt, lame, blind, crooked and crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with their feet two generations planted were artificially mixed with sunkist...
Once on a Pullman sleeper an officious Dorter routed him out of his drawing-room 3erth in the middle of the night. "Dere's a lady out dere says she give me a quarter f you toll me how you pronounce your lame." Gabrilowitsch told him. The pro : Gabbril-oh'-vich...