Word: ill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like the majority of the other jurors, only with the understanding that there would be a recommendation for mercy. . . . He voted for conviction because he was worried about his wife who was an expectant mother. . . . He told me the jury room was very cold and he was very ill and spitting blood. . . . When the time came for the jury to report, he told me his resolution failed, but the others rallied and bullied him into leaving the jury room. He told me he wanted to give an affidavit of his reactions during the trial. . . . Later he said he had been...
...Like the Buffalo robbers, four masked bandits stalked in upon a party at the Champaign, Ill. home of Metalman Henry H. Harris. At first mistaken for jokesters, they lined up 100 celebrating socialites, stripped them of $50,000 worth of jewelry and cash. Among the divested guests were Dr. David Kinley, president of the University of Illinois, and his daughter...
Yankee Roberts of Missouri, using a peg, passed down his rows in bounds but he was only taking two rows at a time. Harold Holmes of Rio, Ill, working as though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had his hat and shirt off and tore at the cornstalks like a madman fighting a phantom army. Near Holmes was his neighbor and friend, Walter Olson, another Swedish-American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes...
...companions, astonished by his strange foreknowledge of events, come to regard him as a sort of unholy ghost. The girl whom he knows his ancestor did marry turns away from him in fear and, tragically, he finds himself falling in love with her sister. This affair is ill-fated even though the lovely Helen knows of Peter's long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen...
Soprano Hallie Stiles, who was to have made her Chicago debut in the season's first Romeo et Juliet, was ill, postponed her appearance until...