Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Conn was cocky; he insisted on playing the big chips this year. Next year, he figured, he might be in the Navy. Besides, he needed the dough. His mother had been bedfast with an incurable ailment for months and he wanted to marry highfalutin Mary Louise Smith, 18-year-old daughter of onetime big-league Ballplayer Jimmy Smith, now a well-to-do Pittsburgh nightclub owner...
...sickness which forced him to retire was a throat ailment which rendered him barely able to speak. Even after his retirement an office was maintained for him in Lehman Hall, and he continued to walk around the Yard and to keep up his contacts with the University which he had served so long...
...Saturday evening. He wore a gold wrist watch, a gold wrist compass. In the pockets of his superbly tailored flier's uniform he had a photograph of his four-year-old son, two phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel Castle near Glasgow. Dungavel is the seat of 38-year-old Wing Commander Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke...
...Timberlake fortune had been invested in a cigaret factory. Now factory and fortune belonged to the Standard Tobacco Company. Asa still had a job with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed a heart ailment that enabled her to wield an invalid power that she had never known in healthier days. Asa's conscience is her slave. Sometimes he succeeds in sneaking off to spend Sunday with Kate Oliver on her river farm. His hope is that some day Uncle William will die and leave...
Scuttling along the street to visit caustic, mountain-maiming old Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in the Chicago hospital to which he had retired to treat a minor ailment, his wife slipped on the icy concrete, fractured her arm, joined her famed husband in the hospital...