Word: laming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...available modern devices for enticing unwary sinners to their souls' salvation. On Sundays, the atheist must have a radio of high selectivity to keep hymns and homilies from intruding on the more secular programs which he, in his darkness, prefers to hear. Church fronts are everywhere decorated with lame aphorisms which a well-meaning pastor has composed after the pattern of happier advertising slogans. Long before the Babbitts had dreamed of luncheon clubs, church suppers, preceded and followed by prayer, were a universal institution...
...Wortley, England, a well-brushed, playful, black Pomeranian dog followed, six years ago, the coffin of his master to its pit in the local cemetery. Clods fell on the coffin. He wagged his tail. His master was down there, hiding. Last week the dog, shaggy now and truculent, lame with age, his coat gnarled and his old bones stiff, stretched out to die. For six years, fed by marveling neighbors, he had kept watch over the grave...
Negative Elements: Lame, immodest, sensitive, faulty in grammar, slangy, critical, argumentative, sarcastic, pessimistic, irreligious, irreverent, poor moral influence, no public spirit...
Immodest . . . argumentative . . . lame schoolteacher...
...inspiration for others, these few notes are being written. I will tell the tale as it was told to me, for I know that every word is true. The individual whose history I am taking the liberty of writing was doubly handicapped in that he was very lame in both legs and hence was unable to do manual labor and thus cut off from many kinds of work. Today he is a Professor of Education in a large western college...