Word: laming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week the President received more than 100 visitors. Among them: the Duchess of Hamilton, antivivisectionist, and other British ladies; Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and many an agricultural college president; General Charles H. Sherrill and his Olympic Games Committee; lame duck Senator Harreld of Oklahoma who was defeated in the elections; Major General Lejeune, Commandant of the Marines, who invited the President to a football game...
...squad will be able to muster its full strength for this week's tilt with the Princeton Tiger, since not a man received a serious injury in the Tufts encounter. Guarnaccia and Saltonstall, both of whom starred in the long marches down the field, were lame and bruised, but will be in perfect condition by next Saturday. Bell, Kilgour, and K. D. Robinson, the three players who were unable to take part in last Saturday's game, will be fit and ready before the end of the week...
...flags to wave, but their party gives them a "plat- form" ingeniously constructed of sagging, soft "planks." For at least a month the Standard Bearers are supposed to do a graceful jig on these planks. Then comes election day, and the panting dancers are either governors and senators, or lame ducks...
...Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame to Mom. Stenographer Mame reports the antics of -"the greatest Man in the whole wide world" astride an electric "camelephant" (exercise machine) and how she tells him what to tell newsgatherers to tell the people to think. Author Sinclair's announcement betrayed lame borrowings from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, moronese novelette by Author Anita Loos...
...Meanwhile," concludes the Christian Century's correspondent, "the fundamentals convention, albeit walking a little lame, pursued its militant way and wound up in a blaze of defiant glory...