Word: lameness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Norris of Nebraska began urging a constitutional amendment to let the peoples' voice be heard afresh, in Congress and in the White House, without anachronistic delay. Thrice the Senate approved the Norris Resolution. Thrice the House remained static. Last fortnight the proposal to exterminate "lame duck" legislators and executives passed the Senate again, 67 to 6, and was sent to the House. It provided that Congress shall meet every year on January 4; that Congress shall sit every other year until through its business and at least until April 30 in the years between; that Presidential inaugurals shall...
Debated a resolution for amending the constitution to abolish "lame duck" sessions of Congress and presidential tenures; passed it, 65-6; sent it to the House...
...Senator Walsh of Montana) his ancient proposal to amend the Constitution so that the President of the U. S. would be inaugurated on the 15th, and Senators and Representatives take their seats on the 2nd of the January following the November of their elections. This means of abolishing the "lame duck" sessions of Congress, and of putting the people's choice promptly into the White House, has been passed by the Senate before but rejected by the House...
MONEY WRITES!-Upton Sinclair-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Once again fuming, foaming Upton Sinclair girds himself beyond all reason, leaps on his lame but willing steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty...
...speedy Junior will be fit in two days' time. G. K. Brown '28, who was hit on the head in the Purdue battle, was pronounced fit for work. J. L. Combs ocC., who has been out with a bad knee, was in togs yesterday, and did light work. A lame leg muscle kept S. C. Burns '29 from reporting at the field yesterday afternoon...