Word: lemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August 1932, five Nazi bully boys trampled a man to death in front of his mother. Up-&-coming Party Leader Adolf Hitler hailed the murderers as heroes. Next day Headmaster Kurt Hahn of Germany's Salem (pronounced Zah-lem) School (near Lake Constance) notified every graduate that the time had come to choose: "Break with Hitler or with Salem...
Stock Question. In Decatur, Ind., Restaurateur Lem Ehler rebelled at saying "No meat," posted a large sign: "How do you want your eggs...
...Goudschmitt and his assistant, Lem Hyde devised a practical sounding method last week for their Physics 2 pupils. Hyde suggested that a copy of the text be placed in the library showcase...
Sometimes Lillian could glimpse the notorious "Widder Woman," dressed only in corset and drawers, prancing drunkenly to the pawnshop with the blanket she had stripped from her bastard son, who was dying of consumption. Sometimes Lillian could hear Red, Lem, Butch and Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe...
Crowe croaked: "First thing you do, cut off that hanging thumbnail. It's damned annoying." Leatherneck's Career. Like many an other famed Marine (e.g., Generals "Lem" Shepherd and "Red Mike" Edson, Colonel "Chesty" Puller), Kentucky-born Jim Crowe started in the ranks. He was an enlisted man up to 1934, when he became a Marine gunner (warrant officer). After Pearl Harbor, he was commissioned a captain ("I was never a lousy second looey...