Word: bedridden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child of nine, while engaged in his "daily task of rowing a large boat one quarter of a mile," dislocated his right hip, was forced to remain in a cast for six weeks. His epileptic seizures returned. But deep breathing and arm exercises helped him while he was bedridden, and when he recovered, he went back to his training with no further attacks...
Anent the New Zealand egg story [TIME, Feb. 13]. No marvel to readers is the fact that bedridden Harold Ryder "set" on a chicken egg and succeeded in hatching it. Any constantly warm location would have done the same for said egg. The marvel lies in the fact that Mr. Ryder, who probably weighs between 100 and 200 pounds, was able to lie abed with an egg for 25 days and nights and not so much as crack the shell...
Last December a plump, middle-aged Mexican song writer, Maria Grever, lay bedridden with a serious face infection. Hypodermic injections by an attending physician made her feel as if her bed were tipping. Forced to meditate on this seasick idea, Tunesmith Grever evolved the title Ti-Pi-Tin, composed a tune to go with...
When James was packed off to swank Groton School in 1920 Father was hopelessly stumping the country as Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency. By the time James had made the football team as left tackle, Father was apparently bedridden for life with infantile paralysis...
...pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half-blind, bedridden, living in pigsty disorder, she stayed up half the night filling gaily bound notebooks with illegible maxims intended to be sold at Woolworth's. A typical letter of her last days reels off to her daughter a fearful jeremiad of grievances, dark suspicions, comments on the latest trunk murder...