Word: ill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pennant and the World's Championship. St. Louis plastered his picture all over the town. But Hornsby did not like his next contract with the Cardinals, and was traded to the Giants for "Fordham Frankie" Frisch and Fat James Ring. Last year Hornsby captained the Giants with McGraw ill, managed them on their last western trip, brought them home with a chance for the pennant. This winter, people could not understand why Manager McGraw traded him to Boston. In Boston this spring he succeeded Manager Slattery, did what he could with that slovenly club, but has not succeeded...
...Strictly speaking, the Capone residence is just outside Chicago, in ill-famed Cicero, Ill. But the Capone operations are inside the city limits. Chicago's police and Mr. Capone understand each other when a civic "cleanup" is afoot...
...Clark Hoover is herself industrious. She spends herself on the Girl Scouts of America, whose national vice president she is. Until April, when she resigned the office, she was also chairman of the Girl Scout board of directors. Miss Sara Louise Arnold, the national Girl Scout president, had been ill and Mrs. Hoover, upon whom President Arnold's work devolved, felt that the chairmanship of the directorate was one job too many...
More calmly, with businesslike brevity, Col. William Franklin Knox, general manager of Hearst newspapers, slapped M. Siegfried's hands, tweaked his nose. "All this," sneered Col. Knox, "is merely a reiteration of an oft-repeated slander in which ill-informed people frequently indulge...
Died. Claude George Burnham, 49, executive vice president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; at Kenilworth, Ill.; after six months' illness...