Word: lamer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing between acts, the music even made the commercials fairly tolerable. But it was no cure for Oscar Hammerstein II's script, which kept shifting uneasily between the sentimental and the sophisticated, and making each seem lamer than the other. The modern approach produced a down-to-earth skeptic of a Godmother (Edith Adams) with sequined eyelids and, for a magic wand, a drum major's baton. The attempt at innocent fairy-tale enchantment was sometimes harder to take: one interminable lovers' dialogue consisted of stilted inanities that sounded like a whole musicom-edy's worth...
State Boxing Commissioner Henry N. Lamer, Football and boxing coach, said yesterday he thought the Jimmy Carter Tommy Collins light weight beat was one of the safest championship fights in the history of the ring...
...boxing commission picked referee Tommy Rawson, Lamer said, on his record of handling other championship bouts and fighters...
John Culver, the big fullback, played well, said Lamar. Culver set up the first score with a ten-yard plunge from the Andover eleven, then went over on the next play. Lamer also landed reserve tailback John Tulonko for hard running and good defensive play. He commented that King called plays well...