Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan is full of Italian waiters, German butchers, Irish millionaires and Russian artists. One of the Russians is Arshele Gorky, 23, who last week became an active member of the faculty of the Grand Central Art School. His cousin, Maxim, is now in Venice, treating a cardiac ailment and working on another book of those stories which, kindled from Anton Pavlovich Tchekov's great bonfire, have made his name burn like a sombre torch' across the world. Arshele Gorky admits the relationship. He himself paints still life. In his first newspaper interview he talked good sense...
...sight and most other functions seemed not affected. But his conduct, his attitude towards life were. There was something wrong with his higher psychical centres (one at the fore end of each hemisphere), perhaps with only one of the two, although they are most intimately related. Physicians diagnosed his ailment as from a tumor which was pressing down upon the fore part of the right hemisphere of the cerebrum. They sent him to Dr. Dandy for confirmation of diagnosis and for operative treatment...
...sore ailment, described on the programs as "indisposition," smote Tenor Beniamino Gigli just before he was to appear as Vasco da Gama in L'Africaine. Mario Chamlee sprang into the breach. Without rehearsal, without ever having appeared in the role on any stage, he sang it resonantly, fluently, confidently...
Field Marshal the Earl of Ypres who, as Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, commanded the British Expeditionary Force in France during 1914 and 1915, underwent a prolonged and serious operation. His ailment was unspecified. A series of bulletins pronounced his condition satisfactory...
...been forced to repair to a hospital, the victim of a nervous breakdown. It was known that Dr. Grant had been in an extremely nervous condition when he resigned his pastorate last June, and the cause of the breakdown was thought to be a recurrence of an old ailment, anemia...