Word: laming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous period Captain Roark's little brown mare Joy Bells suddenly went lame. Helped off the field, Joy Bells was found to have a broken pastern in her right foreleg. Spectators were happy to hear that although she will never play polo again, she will not be destroyed. "For sentimental reasons" she will be carefully nursed until the leg mends, then she will pass the rest of her useful life foaling...
Paul Poiret, always theatrical, startled fashion scouts with high Elizabethan ruffs on formal afternoon dresses, with lame skirts over lace trousers, an evening sensation...
Sick animals go lame. They also slobber at the mouth and smack their lips as though trying to get rid of something. The mouth is sore from the characteristic lesions of the disease. When animals are infected they must be killed and their bodies destroyed by fire or quicklime, else buried deeply, to prevent the disease spreading to other animals. Because of such thorough eradication the U. S., which has had several epidemics of foot-&-mouth disease, now has practically no cases. In the Argentine the disease still prevails. That is one good reason for preventing the importation of Argentine...
...Speaker Longworth was last week granted a three-day leave by the House to rest at Aiken, S. C. In his absence Nebraska's Senator Norris proposed the Senate investigate his " discourtesy" by keeping for ten months on his desk without action a Senate proposal to eliminate " lame duck" sessions of Congress...
...year, the A. S. P. C. A. examined 109,438 horses, to make sure that they were not lame, sore, unfed, overloaded, raced, abused or neglected. Horses and dogs are the main concern of the Society, though it views with alarm any neglect or abuse of cats, mistreatment of fowl, cruelty to performing monkeys, the improper caging of trained bears, failure to water circus lions, the skinning alive of rabbits. Its active members are apt to be businessmen, lawyers, smart sporting people, animal fanciers. Its president is Frank K. Sturgis. Onetime president of the National Horse Show, onetime president...