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...Broiled Lamb Chops...
...dream of lamb chops! . . . They rollop up and down in front of Fontainebleau, parading huge signs: 'Ruth Ericksen is unfair to lamb chops! We are young, tender and juicy. . . . Moreover, we are modest, we wear frills down to our ankles and that is more than SHE does on some of these Saturday nights-yeah...
According to what Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had heard, Mrs. Ericksen was not only unfair to lamb chops, she was unfair to youth. Mrs. Roosevelt had heard that Mrs. Ericksen did not like the American Youth Congress, to which Mrs. Roosevelt is very partial. Last month she invited Mrs. Ericksen to the White House. There the astounded Mrs. Ericksen was met by the President's wife and members of the A. Y.C., who straightway whelmed her with arguments. Mrs. Ericksen spent the night, went home, wrote a "thank you" note to her hostess, added: "But my opinion...
Last week, back among her lamb chops, Mrs. Ericksen said she had enjoyed the party, too, had not changed her mind a whit about the A. Y. C. Yeah...
Besides their great literary contemporaries, the Lambs were friends with such characters as Thomas Manning, the vagrant Orientalist, who always carried peppers in his pockets; Charles Lloyd, a neurotic Quaker, whose piano thumping drove Charles Lamb to write The Old Familiar Faces; George Dyer, who could never distinguish between prose and poetry, was so near-sighted that he once disappeared into a river while the Lambs' maid was watching. Doctors sometimes advised Charles Lamb that this eccentric circle was not the healthiest one for a spinster afflicted with intermittent lunacy. But Mary Lamb seems to have felt quite...