Word: lome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Campbell, 77, tenth Duke of Argyll, hereditary chief (Mac Cailean Mhor, a rank created in 1286) of famed Clan Campbell (green, black, navy blue tartan); at his castle in Argyll, Scotland. A crotchety, feudal-minded bachelor, the multi-titled duke (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Marquis of Lome and Kintyre) regarded the modern world as a personal outrage, once threatened to toss bureaucratic "snoopers" into his dungeons...
...Headed by two men: 1) Air Vice Marshal Arthur Lome James, the boss of the R.C.A.F.'s technical division; 2) William Lowe, the man who runs the government-owned Canadian Commercial Corp...
...Stanley Cup, hockey's World Series, Ranger Goalie Lome Chabot was hit in the eye by a flying puck. Manager Lester Patrick, who was 44, had quit the ice two years before, and had never played goal in his life, got into Chabot's sweaty armor and skates. He let only one puck get past him, held on against a furious Montreal Maroons' attack until Boucher scored the winning Ranger goal...
This fall Conn Smythe replaced his aging once-greats ("Sweeney" Schriner, Lome Carr, "Babe" Pratt) with a bunch of promising youngsters, reducing the average age of his team from over 30 to 24. Then he announced: "There are oneway tickets to the minors for any players who get shoved around and take it numbly." Last week none of his youngsters, most of them ex-servicemen, were playing for Lady Byng. Body-checking their way into the league lead, they had run up 108 penalty-box minutes in eleven games...