Word: laming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horses almost too decrepit to stand, all of whom had done gallant War-time service. Most pitiable were two photographs of a famished, broken-kneed old black mare which had once seen proud service with the nth Hussars, a bay cavalry gelding with "all his joints gone and very lame in the near-fore and near-hind." They were two survivors of 80,000 British Army horses and mules sold by the British Government to Belgium in 1919, put to work in mines, hitched to produce-wagons and canal-barges. Coming on these pictures most Britons were more convinced than...
...least active House Committees is that on the Election of President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress. Its most significant chore this century was steering the Norris Lame Duck Amendment in 1932. One of the most active House Committees is that on Labor. Last fortnight a widow of 62, New Jersey's Mary Teresa Norton, succeeded to the chair of the Labor Committee and last week another widow of 62, New York's Caroline Goodwin O'Day, succeeded to the chair of the Election Committee...
...Herbert, 36, a mail carrier tired from lugging Christmas mails, paused at a tavern during the holidays to have a few beers. Subsequently he stopped at a package store for wine and whiskey and then went home and gave his wife such a beating that she was "sick, sore, lame and disordered and did suffer a fractured nose." Mrs. Torrence is now back with her husband, but last week she was asking $20,000 for her Yule beating from the landlords and proprietors of both the grogshop and package store. Prosecuting the case was smart, 26-year-old Lawyer Jacob...
...Columbia thought the championships already won. Thereupon Pitt's Woodruff, in the quarter-and half-mile races, duplicated Johnson's double victory, loping through the quarter-mile in nine-foot strides to tie the intercollegiate record of 47 sec. flat. A Pitt sprinter pulled up lame in the 220-yd. semi-finals but Columbia had missed a third place in the broad jump by ⅜ in. By the end of the afternoon Pitt and Columbia were not two points apart and the ⅜-in. margin proved crucial. In the determining 220-yd. final, last event on the program...
...Promptly at the opening of every session, with patience comparable to Senator Norris' in getting the Lame Duck Amendment, Representative Boylan would introduce a resolution to build a gigantic memorial to Statesman Jefferson that could hold its own with the Lincoln Memorial at the west end of the Mall. Promptly every session it was tabled, until the 73rd Congress found itself with buckets of New Deal money to spend. Quickly Representative Boylan's Jefferson Memorial bill was passed, an expenditure of $3,000,000 authorized (but not appropriated) and a commission set up to draw plans, with Congressman...