Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lame Duck. Before departing for Montgomery that night, Wallace promised to return to Indiana this week. He chortled: "Governor Welsh said a few weeks ago, 'Who's Wallace?' He's not saying that...
...even better in Indiana than he did in Wisconsin, where he polled 264,000 against 512,000 for Governor John Reynolds, another Johnson-minded favorite son. One reason is that anti-civil rights feeling runs high in some industrial areas of Indiana. Another is that Welsh, a lame-duck Governor who cannot succeed himself, is suffering a popularity dip because of a state sales tax he signed into law last year...
...full of mild, passing references to Emma's erratic behavior-her abrupt cancellation of a garden party without informing the guests, her abrupt departure for Calais without informing her husband. And continually there is apparently a kind of dreary obeisance to Emma's perpetual pains-her lame knee and sprained ankle, chills and influenza, shingles and failing eyesight. A reader can easily sympathize with a wry line in her husband's notebook: "Love lives on propinquity, but dies of contact...
...author of Bob Hope's tweeds. If Donald O'Connor wants to look like George M. Cohan, which for some reason he does, Sy cuts him a checkered vest. But he won't do just anything. He designed Liberace's first gold lame suit, but when the big Lib began demanding sequins for it, Sy sent him to a costume house...
...Lame Dreamer. She plays a nonchalant and free-roving girl of the world, in love with a pathological fibher. For much of the picture, she is just a name, an offstage figure who has gone away to find the freedom yearned after by the miserable hero, who hangs suspended between poverty and affluence in a lower-middle-class house in Yorkshire. He hides in a world of lies. He lies to others and he lies to himself, creating a Walter Mittyland called Ambrosia, of which he is king...