Word: laming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your leading editor of today I find most pusillanimous with bastardy implied, perfidious in its ill-concealed splenetics, and hideous in its bombast. I cannot call it creditable journalism; too lame the tribute at its end, which does scant justice to a sheet of high repute, far higher than your...
Amid shouts of "Banzai!" "Hail, Illustrious One!" "Greetings!" the Prince Regent proceeded unruffled on his way. Later Ambassador Silva explained that he thought the first policeman had said "Come, please" instead of "Comes Prince." Since the policeman's gesture made his intent clear, this explanation was considered very lame.* The Japanese Government was rumored to have entered an official protest against the "unwarranted tempestuousness" of the Ambassador...
Last week a "strike" against this early rising-hour was called by famed Urbain Ledoux, the "Mr. Zero" whose sensational stunts in behalf of Bowery bums have made him widely known as "President of the Old Bucks and Lame Ducks Club...
...shelter, treatment, and discipline of physical, mental, and moral "lame ducks"; a species of sanatorium or reform school for young people who are "too much" for busy, lazy, or incompetent parents or guardians...
...list. Too many undergraduate committees are "bottom heavy" from this point of view. Here is particularly a case where high-standing scholars should have adequate representation. Otherwise the committee's recommendations, whatever they may be, will be somewhat discounted in advance. And rightly so, for nobody cares what the lame ducks think about educational requirements which they have failed to fulfill...