Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense reeked with sentimentality and patriotism. Lawyer Hogan made the women of the jury weep. Doheny on the witness stand cried easily and often. Frequent were the references to Fall's bad health. Lawyer Thompson tried to describe "a red haired young man" (Doheny) and "a black haired young fellow" (Fall) meeting on the "deserts of the Southwest" when Justice Hitz cut in: "The color of Mr. Doheny's hair is not in evidence. Please follow the evidence." Lawyer Hogan made an impassioned plea for the jury to send Fall "back to the sunshine of New Mexico." Remarked...
...greet Dr. Laubry, his specialist, standing on his own feet. Anxiously hovering near was his trained nurse, white-coifed Sister Theoneste. Ten years ago during the Peace Conference, Clémenceau was shot-wounded by a young anarchist named Cottin.* It was Sister Theoneste who nursed him back to health. Last week when his battle for life was hardest, Clémenceau, the confirmed atheist, had called for Sister Theoneste again. She it was who despite his grumbling protests gave him hypodermic injections of camphorated oil to relieve the congestion in his chest, prepared his frugal diet (vegetable soup, mashed...
...censor of Great Britain, reporter, editor, publisher, author. Last week he announced the end of one of his many ventures. Said he, writing in T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly. "This is the last number which will appear. I have struggled for a long time against ill-health and fatigue, but I find my health unequal to the demands...
...preceded by a chill. Then the parrot too lost appetite, moulted, became diarrhetic, died. The doctors examined him, pronounced his death due to psittachosis-parrot-disease. They warned parrot-owners that this infection would kill their pets and themselves as well. Parrots thus diseased must be segregated or killed. Health officials were surprised to find the case in Argentina. It is usually confined to more northern parts of South America, where parrots are plentiful
Paradoxical as it may seem, as our economic strength increases we grow more and more concerned with the economic health of Europe. The older continent may no longer hold the undisputed political leadership of the world. Its teeming populations and the intelligent and technical skill of its business leaders and artisans are, nevertheless, still of prime importance to Americans...