Word: laming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under his favorite alias, "Private Shaw." In the House of Commons the Government parried questions as to whether Colonel Lawrence had fomented the revolt against King Amanullah of Afghanistan (TIME, Jan. 28). Admissions that he had been stationed at Peshawar, India, on the Afghan border, were coupled with the lame assertion that "Lawrence was granted no leave of absence from his duties as a private in the Royal Air Force." As everyone knows, British R. A. F. planes are constantly operating over Afghanistan...
...some incriminating letters from her husband's subordinate, the attache, that make the task of this young man more than ordinarily difficult and provide an abundance of embarrassing situations. Epigrams on the nature of virtue, love, and related matters help keep the dialog from sagging after a rather lame beginning, and there is some room for satire of a rather superior brand on the diplomatic profession...
...cinema, once a suspect-competitor of the nickel sideshow, began its new phase in 1912 when Sarah Bernhardt, old and lame, said "Pictures are my one chance for immortality." At that time, Zukor, a 5 ft. 4 in. Jew from Ricse, Hungary, was running a movie theatre on Fourteenth Street, Manhattan. William A. Brady, his temporary partner, distrusted the new medium; so did most other producers and actors. Most of the theatrical people who, lacking other jobs, worked in pictures, tried out of shame to stay anonymous. Zukor told their names. On a scratch pad one night he wrote...
...what the majority is going to do. The majority does not barge ahead ruthlessly without warning to the minority. If possible all legislative arrangements are worked out amicably in advance-so amicably in fact that oldtime partisanship is on the decline in the House. The three outstanding Democrats besides lame-duck Leader Garrett...
...Columbia to which the House turns its attention on alternate Mondays. Mr. Blanton demands roll and quorum calls, makes booming points of order, inveighs lengthily on small grievances. He serves the purpose of keeping something from being "put over" (his pet phrase) on the House. He is now a lame gadfly, however, having run third to Mayfield and Connolly for the Senate. His departure after March will not be regretted by the general membership...