Word: laming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambell's wrist is still lame and he probably will not play until the Princeton game Saturday. Norris will again take care of first bast, and Tuesday's batting order will be used...
When man's great and good friend, the horse, slips and breaks his leg, he is promptly shot. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sees to that. When a Senator or a Representative slips and loses an election, he continues as a lame duck law maker for four months longer. To provide for the prompt decapitation of maimed ducks and halt politicians, a proposed amendment to the Constitution was brought before the Senate, The Senate passed the proposal by vote of 63 to 7. Its terms...
Percy Hammond: "Scientifically, The Outsider is, as Mr. Dempsey would say, 'the bunk.' . . . But Mr. Atwill is gorgeous as the quack-doctor; and Miss Cornell's realization of the passionate lame girl seems a perfect thing. I suspect she knows more about honest acting than any of the other actors of today...
...athletic eminence has to do with the New Plan examinations. But extraordinary brilliance will never be required for admission to Harvard; and as the sons of graduates have apparently inherited sufficient intelligence to follow their fathers in the past, it seems hardly necessary or appropriate that they be branded "lame ducks" and "helped over the stile" in the future...
This-in a land where "suicides of bank directors, speculators and other financial lame ducks have averaged three daily for a week"-created a tremendous panic. Food prices trebled themselves in as many days and the public were considerably agitated by the false reports of speculators...