Word: bedridden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President. The Society of American Bacteriologists at University of Rochester Medical School last week elected Alice Catherine Evans of Washington president. She did not attend the meetings, for she was bedridden in Washington with malta fever, contracted three years ago while experimenting with the germs. They cause an undulating fever, quite similar to typhoid or typhus fever. Goats usually are responsible for malta fever in humans. Professionally Miss Evans is a member of the U. S. Public Health Service at Washington...
...Durant shall stand for something better than a football in Wall Street." The New York Times writer knew that, even though Mr. Durant's name may be a football of Wall Street, Mr. Durant himself is one of its most skilled footballers; hurt in a railroad accident and bedridden, yet he bravely persisted in his stock market activities (TIME, Feb. 1, 1926) ; practically impoverished after he was ousted from General Motors in 1920, he has since made himself many times a millionaire by stock market skill; market quotations are ham-and-eggs to him. Wrote the Time...
...When, however, he [Rev. Harry E. Fosdick] states that "I am not afraid to recover things the Protestants threw away -beauty of service and the confessional," he shows that he does not know the Lutheran service and doctrine. I, as a layman bedridden for six years, with ten ribs removed under local anaesthesia to collapse the right lung and close to the end on several occasions, wish to inform Dr. Fosdick that the confessional has ALWAYS been a part of the LUTHERAN religion, but entirely voluntary. I inclose a clipping from the Lutheran Witness...
...little sons with anti-whiskey solutions. The result: one becomes a mute, the other a paralytic. Later in life, a thunderstorm suddenly starts up during the third act to provide atmosphere while the mute is engaged in raping a girl. This reprehensible sight so enrages the paralytic (20 years bedridden) that he suddenly renews his synaptic connections, skips out of bed, does successful battle for the Right. The play's existence testifies to at least one of the evils of Prohibition...
...crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In Denmark King Christian and Queen Alexandrine were bedridden, and in Spain 200,000 politically less important people were afflicted...