Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smiling enigmatically, he refused to affirm or deny rumors that he is about to petition the League of Nations to permit his father to quit Holland for Italy. Allegedly Wilhelm II desires this change of residence on account of the delicate health of "the Empress Hermine," as his consort is now referred to at Doom...
Weakened in Health...
President Eliot is not in quite as good health as he enjoyed a year ago. A severe attack of shingles, from which he suffered last September, weakened him somewhat, and as a result he has done no public speaking this year...
...small children living in three rooms, only two of which were heated. She was a weaver, a skilled worker, and received $15 a week out of which she just managed to pay her rent of $17 a month and support her children. She had worked nights but her health had given way and she was forced to change to day work to save her life...
...Hamburg (reported the current issue of The World's Health) and in other Rhineland and southern German cities, a shrewd new system of handling beggary has been evolved. Books of tickets, each worth five or ten pfennigs, are available to generous citizens at the City Hall. Upon being accosted, instead of handing the ragged one money, so often misgiven to impostors, the benefactor tears out tickets, directs the mendicant to a relief bureau, with assurance that his case will be looked up and aided by food, clothing and even employment within 24 hours of his applying. The genuinely destitute...