Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...players: Jimmy Dykes (now manager of the Chicago White Sox), Herb Pennock, Chief Bender, Rube Waiberg, Howard Ehmke. Then he quietly thanked them all, made a short speech and rode back to his Germantown home to rest for three hours after the excitement. Connie Mack has been in poor health since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder ailment, his familiar figure, dressed in street clothes, wearing a pre-War high hard collar, brandishing a score...
Washington. For room & board, $8.75 a week; for lunches, $1.25; for clothing, $2.87; and $4.13 for everything else, including such things as health, recreation, transportation, personal care, savings & insurance, church & charity. Some annual clothing items: three hats at $1.95, one at $2.95; three sweaters at $1.69; three handbags at $1; one $3.95 raincoat every three years; one heavy coat ($29.50), one light coat ($16.95) every two years; four slips fit $1.69; two girdles at $3.95; one scarf at $1; two collar-&-cuff sets at 59?; six bloomers and panties at 59?; two pairs of shoes...
With a specific favor usually in mind, novena-makers at Our Lady of Sorrows write their petitions on blanks handed them before their novena begins. Favorite petitions are for good health, for employment, for souls in purgatory, but many a petitioner is interested in matters like the health of the Pope, world peace, success in studies, a happy marriage or happy death. According to last fortnight's list of petitions, more novena-makers are anxious to find a "Catholic Boy Friend" (377) than a "Catholic Girl Friend...
After his death in 1901, a brief, old-fashioned travel diary was found among Bishop Whipple's papers. When he was 21, ill-health had driven him South for the winter, on a long, tedious, weakening journey. He went from New York to Savannah on a first-class merchantman, from Savannah to St. Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail...
...floor of the car. On steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches, but on one a driver was drunk, on another a wagon tongue broke, almost tipped them off a mountain. Although he does not say that he regained his health on his strenuous junket, his diary gives the impression that Southern sunshine must have been beneficial, or he could never have stood the trip home...