Word: fed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That winter, he lay ill in Charles Brown's house, languid with fever, able to write but little and consumed with longing for Fanny Brawne, whom he could not always see, though she lived so near. His doctor bled him often, fed him little; his illness grew fast. At last, after separation from Fanny in which he tor tured himself and her with jealous suspicions,* his friend Severn took him to Italy, nursed him through his last weeks. Wrote Severn: "He says words that tear out my heartstrings, 'Why is this ... I can't understand this' ? and then...
...west of Ireland suffered for lack of potatoes (its staple food) for the lack of peat (its staple fuel). The Free State Government rushed aid to the stricken area, fed daily 18,000 persons, distributed much free coal...
...special Pullman cars, 26 enormous baggage cars. From the one came forth many persons, male and female, sleepy-eyed and hungry; from the other, chairs, rocks, castles, cannons and other properties. It was the Chicago Opera Company arrived in Boston for a two-weeks' engagement. When they had rested, fed, the principals and their assistants began to give performances for enthusiastic Bostonians. La Boheme they gave with Mme. Edith Mason, Mr. Cortis; Boris Godunov with Chaliapin...
...coffee, three slices of buttered toast; for lunch, vegetable soup, roast beef, sweet potatoes, rolls, two cups of coffee, vanilla ice cream. He was Paavo Nurmi, on his way from Manhattan to compete in the Illinois A. C. handicap meet. The famed express ended its run, the passenger, well-fed, well-rested...
...retainers noised his plight about the train. A New York Central brakeman, famed as a heavy eater, sidled up to the famished Finn modestly offered three succulent sandwiches. The engineer gave a bottle of milk, a conductor an apple. Thus was the breach filled. Nurmi left no crumbs. Fed, he stated that he disliked Chicago. He had three grievances: 1) Without notice to him the Coliseum track had been reduced from ten to twelve laps to the mile, a change which had thrown out his well-planned running schedule; 2) The start of the race had been delayed till...