Word: laming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Stanfield is the third Administration Senator to go by the board, to become a lame duck: first McKinley of Illinois (TIME, April 26), then Pepper of Pennsylvania, then Stanfield...
...chewing gum on shipboard than to sell chewing tobacco, which has always been sold. They argued that a piece of chicle, delicately flavored and injected into the mouth of a gob (except when in ranks) not only was harmless, but promoted efficiency and "good morals." It was Senator McKinley, lame duck from Illinois, who finally prevailed upon the higher officers of the Navy to believe these arguments. At least one of Senator McKinley's constituents (William Wrigley Jr. of Chicago) grinned broadly. He has always been in favor of good morals in the Navy...
There are people who ignorantly suppose that the Senate is composed of sedentary gasbags who would prove to be lame ducks in other spheres of rough and tumble. Nothing could be further from the truth. The majority of Senators are temperamentally adventurers, knights-errant, more combatively courageous than fluent. It is quite typical that Raymond T. Baker, having exhausted most forms of excitement, announced last week his candidacy as U. S. Senator from Nevada...
...Hickling Bradford,* surgeon, orthopedist and Dean of the Harvard Medical School. The professional opposition to him raged, not against his operative principles and methods, rather against the noisy publicity newspapers gave him. The press touted him as a miracle worker, a Messiah come to redeem the halt and the lame. Cameramen got him, always genial and accommodating, to pose in ridiculous circumstances. One picture showed him kinked over and looking solemnly at the twisted head of a boy whom he had cured. The doctor, in his overcoat and without his hat. looked exactly like a small-time ventriloquist with...
...months between the election of a Congress and its assembling to about two months. Incidentally it would do away with the short term* in which filibusters are so effective, and by having a new session begin immediately after a new Congress is elected would do away with the "Lame Duck" legislators...