Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hammonds became Governor Johnston's confidential secretary and a power in the state. Her high-handed tactics with lesser politicians caused the Oklahoma Senate to demand her dismissal. At that time, Governor Johnston described her as a "ewe lamb about to be delivered into the gaping mouths of political wolves." Mrs. Hammonds held her post, and the phrase stuck. Last week's trouble in Oklahoma was promptly labeled The Ewe Lamb Rebellion...
...fill two lesser jobs on Judge, Editor Shuttleworth sent queries to 82 college wits, contributors to the Cheer Leaders department. He got Si replies, and most of the collegians were willing to quit school at once if they were offered desks...
...peacocks screeching on the terrace; and in his gratitude Disraeli forgot her social gaucheries, forgave her boast that Greek sculpture paled before "my Dizzy in his bath." Meanwhile Mrs. Gladstone was relieving her lord that he might deal with Ireland and Egypt and the Liberal Party while she answered lesser demands: "Could you order some toothbrushes cheap for the Orphanage . . . grapes for Mrs. Bagshawe . . . Bible prints . . . schoolroom easels...
...hours. Meehan did not play, but received a percentage for the use of his premises. The players were Arnold Rothstein; George McManus, brother of a Manhattan police Lieutenant, Meyer Boston, shrewd Manhattan "operator"; Edward C. ("Titanic") Thompson, Chicago plunger; "Nigger Nate" Raymond, San Francisco sport; and a few lesser figures. Raymond was the big winner and a slick-looking fellow called "Tough Willie" McCabe, onetime Chicago beer-legger, was supposed to have a half interest in his play...
...antique custom. Conditions charged in the next couple of decades, but yet it fell to the Junior Fraternities to take the blame. Tap Day might be a deadly twenty-four hours, but it came in the spring, when one reads of Blue teams only on page ten; the lesser elections blossom perversely in the antumn, and that is the time when football, and only football, should all the mind. Down came the axe; and the corpse of fall rushing lies, neatly truncated, somewhere between Barkness and the Bowl...