Word: ill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three weeks ago, a plump, pretty, motherly lady of some 50 summers, was taken ill on her way from Albany, N. Y. to an evening party in Manhattan. Her husband. Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, hurried her to a hospital. "Appendicitis," said the doctors, and operated...
...reunion was in progress. Workers on the great Panama Canal had convened from distant places to recall the days when "The Colonel" moved mountains; to recall how he heard their complaints, helped marry them, fathered them for seven sweating years. From Manhattan came a telegram that "The Colonel," whose ill health had prohibited his passage to the reunion, had died...
...average. Admitting that most of the tests have laid a distinct emphasis on the Reading Period assignments, there seems to be an almost unanimous sentiment among students that these assignments were often too heavy, and that as a result, the midyear examination found the student either insufficiently read or ill-reviewed on the work which preceded the Christmas recess...
Last week Dr. Gessler's words had an honest ring. He is in ill health. Fate has just dealt him a "personal blow" by striking dead, during the past twelvemonth, his two flourishing sons, and, last week, his mother. Since the Fatherland is secure and Otto Gessler stricken, why should he not rest...
Baseball writers soon learned that Hornsby had been rude to President Charles A. Stoneham of the Giants. Acting manager of the nine last summer, Hornsby heckled Stoneham when famed Manager John J. McGraw was absent, ill. He suggested he did not like Stoneham; that he would not manage the team until Stoneham evaporated. This was unwise. Stoneham owned Hornsby...