Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attacking English with a French accent, Swedish Actress Sallert is a lip reader's delight; baffled playgoers may feel that she is singing in tongues. As it happens, missing the show's lines is a fringe benefit, unless one relishes lame quips ("For someone who was a postmaster-general of North America, you could have written"), exclamatory archaisms ("By thunder, I know the wench!") or arch witticism ("I invented bifocals because I thought a man should be able to see the girl in his arms at one and the same time as her husband coming...
...belatedly came out for Club, is not known to be overjoyed at the results and will probably do nothing to stop any serious attempt to humble Bellotti later on. Party harmony, though, has been assured at least through this Tuesday. Peabody has agreed to be cooperative about his lame-duck appointments, Bellotti has agreed to be cooperative when Peabody tries to appoint his staff to various judgeships, and Joe Gargan, Kennedy's cousin, has been named Bellotti's campaign manager...
...clubs, the trips to Bermuda and the swimming pools. More sharply, he wonders how long it will last. Will the money stop? Will the unpredictable demons of alimony or Internal Revenue turn treacherous? The sickness unto death is not the artisan's fear that his arm will go lame; the suburbanite arm could not earn him the price of his quinine water. It is a less specific and less bearable fear: there are gods to be appeased, and the suburbanite has forgotten even their names...
...Court was organized with six Justices in 1789, was cut to five in 1801 by the lame-duck Federalist Congress to prevent President Jefferson from appointing a Republican. Congress raised the number to seven in 1807, nine in 1837, ten in 1863, cut back to the present nine in 1869. Had Congress approved F.D.R.'s court-packing plan in 1937, there could now be 15 Justices...
...word telegram, the Citizens Emergency Commitee to Save Memorial Drive appealed yesterday to lame-duck Governor Endicott Peabody '42 to prevent the transplanting of 130 of the Drive's trees this December...