Word: laming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate that Mr. Kellogg became known to Vice President Coolidge. It was as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Mr. Kellogg was acquainted with Secretary Hughes. In December, 1923, after Ambassador Harvey retired, Mr. Kellogg became Ambassador to Great Britain. His was, of course, a "lame duck" appointment, and not looked upon with favor in some political quarters. To the same quarters his second elevation is equally unpleasing; political opponents doubted his capacity, referred to him as "too nervous, too worried a little man," and remarked that his Senatorial colleagues used to refer to him humorously...
There was no hint that recognition of Russia would be withdrawn; but opinion was divided as to whether the Bolshevik Government would break off negotiations or not. Meantime, recognition of Sovietland by Britain continues to be a lame and empty joke...
Amid the throng lame Hobbinol appear...
...Woodrow Wilson. The rest of the time, largely under the tutelage of William Jennings Bryan, its presidential record has been inglorious. Indeed, even when Mr. Bryan has not piloted the donkey himself, he has usually ridden behind the jockey. Numbers of Democrats say his riding has made the donkey lame...
...rather a pity that the Freshman number of the Lampoon, something supposedly, to agitate the thoracic vertebra of the very youngest class, should be the first number of the year. It is generally such a lame affair, for which, let us add, there is some slight reason. Two or more summer months of idleness, a flood of special deliveries and telegrams the week before college opens, a few haphazard, pointless contributions by editors whose thoughts are at the time still waiting for the sunrise, and the lone editor who has returned to Cambridge, duty-bound and royally peevish, scrambles...