Word: ill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the conqueror's reluctance to cut down Nanking's stupendous military forces. Today Nationalist China has the largest standing army in the world, though by no means the most effective. A rabble nearly 1,500,000 strong are the soldiers of Nationalism, nondescript, ill-drilled, often ragged. Some of their commanders are hired bandit chieftains, others are feudal "War Lords" left over from previous regimes. The cream are spruce, young, "intellectual" Nationalist generals. But the whole motley gang have costly appetites...
...Scout Clifford Taylor, of Des Plaines, Ill., was cleaning fish. Suddenly he heard a cheer outside. Poking his head through the tent-flap, Scout Taylor was quick to recognize sparrow-legged U. S. Ambassador to England Charles Gates Dawes. No lavatory in his tent, Scout Taylor rushed out, fishy paws and all. Ambassador Dawes held out a clean white hand. "Afraid I can't shake hands," said the Scout, "I've been scaling fish." The Ambassador grinned, gripped the boys wrist...
...narrow margin the world's light-weight (135 pound limit) title remained last week with soulful-eyed Sammy Mandell, smart-looking "Rockford (Ill.) Sheik...
...drunk as charged, strange. For decades women have been tippling as heavily as men. and in great numbers. In England and Wales, for example, as far back as the beginning of this century two women died of alcoholism to every three men. The Keeley Institute at Dwight, Ill., which was in the news last week because it is enlarging its inebriety cure facilities, has had women patients since the late Leslie E. Keeley founded it a half century ago.* The "Keeley Cure" usually requires four weeks. The charge is $150, plus board & lodgings. Last year the institute treated more drunks...
...Coolidge would have come with me ... but she is not able to leave her mother. Mrs. Goodhue, who is very ill? so ill that I should not be surprised to get a report that she has passed away...