Word: laming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post Office, the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Courts, Better Business Bureaus. Twenty years ago he slipped, was arrested and fined $5,000 and had his sucker list of 500,000 names destroyed for overshouting "Dr. Robinson's Prescription for Nervous Debility, Lack of Vigor, Failing Memory and Lame Back Brought on by Excesses, Unnatural Drains or the Follies of Youth." Publications like the Police Gazette and Baptist Record carried his advertising...
...they have been helped to grow and become experienced in their work. It is time to understand that the most valuable of all capital is the people. If we have enough trained men in our factories, farms and army, our country cannot be conquered; if not we are lame in both legs...
...supporting cast, pulls itself up by the bootstraps from the sludge of the usual detective thriller by a feeble tug. Replete with the Paramount Paris sower set, the Paramount Paris hotels, policemen and nightclubs, the plot alone has the virtue of making this an entertaining picture, Typical shots--a lame masked man peeking over window ledges. A gloved hand poking the muzzle of a gun through a crack in a door, a spurt of flame, a clutched hand, female screams . . . certainly not the equal of the immortal "Thin...
...been announced that Edward of Wales would perform the chore to spare his parents, held the first two courts of the year at Buckingham Palace. Irma, spouse of Jesse Isidor Straus, U. S. Ambassador to France, was presented in what her dressmaker called "a gown of ice-blue silver lame of streamline cut." At a hint from the Queen most debutantes and dowagers omitted lipstick, mascara, rouge. Since Buckingham Palace was distinctly chilly, some of them grumbled at the Lord Chamberlain's requirement that they appear in decollete. Not to be intimidated, several elderly English ladies harassed the Lord...
...papers conjectured whether George St. Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby was likely to burst out crying during the Speech from the Throne, seemed to rather hope he would. Instead the Babe proved himself a Bessborough, did nothing, said nothing, with dignity. Lady Bessborough, gowned by Maggy Rouff in blue and silver lame. made an able substitute Queen Mary, her throat roped with pearls, her head regally supporting a tiara. In legal fiction the Governor General became "the actual person of the King in Canada" when he took the gilded Throne, attended by handsome young Court pages who seated themselves gracefully upon...