Word: laming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January instead of in the December following. Reason: the 20th Amendment to the Constitution adopted to make the legislative branch of the Government more quickly responsive to the popular will as registered at the polls. Vice President John Nance Garner gaveled to order a Senate which contained not one lame duck. Nebraska's old weary-faced Senator George William Norris, whose 20th Amendment outlawed defeated Congress men from the Capitol, looked and saw what was indeed a lame-duckless session. He shook his head sadly and murmured: "It looks like a picked chicken...
HOLC got off to a slow, clumsy start because President Roosevelt appointed a "lame duck" Congressman from South Carolina named William Francis Stevenson as its chairman. Democrat Stevenson apparently was more interested in giving his relatives and friends jobs in the new Government agency than he was in getting started with mortgage relief. Another cause of initial delay was that mortgage holders were reluctant to swap their liens for HOLC bonds because the bonds were guaranteed by the Government only as to interest. Therefore Congress at its last session guaranteed them as to principal as well. Chairman Stevenson was replaced...
...Lutzenberg did not like conventional photographs iked to do things and make funny poses." Little did Photographer Braue realize that two years later, without his knowledge, his land lord would make a tidy sum peddling his pictures of "Dick" and "Nita" to Manhattan newspapers. That summer Hauptmann had a lame leg, due, he said, to varicose veins. Braue and Miss Lutzenberg never saw him afterward...
...thoroughly as his hero. Slim, mastered the job of wire stringing. The tale is by turns hardboiled, sentimental, tragic, humorous. But the toughness, the sentiment, the tragedy and the humor all belong to a man's world. Pride of work comes first, play second, true love a lame third...
...throughout Spain as El Bailarin (the Dancer), because of his tiptoeing grace in the arena, was a retired matador, living in dignified respectability in Granada. He thought he had a right to expect some of his three sons to follow in his own mincing footsteps. But Miguel was born lame, so his only future was the Church. Juan, his father's favorite, was a physical coward. Pepe, the eldest, became a matador, but he lacked his father's touch. Pepe liked the life, however, learned all the dissolute extracurricular tricks. When his father arranged a marriage between...