Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile voyage to Montevideo, Uruguay, worn Captain Gainard came down with influenza. He was ill in his bunk in that port when informed that another sit-down strike had taken place. In sympathy with a local longshoremen's strike, the Algic's crew refused to turn the winches. Too weak to handle the situation himself, Captain Gainard put through a 5,000-mile telephone call to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington. Boss Kennedy instantly sent off a message authorizing the captain to put the ringleaders in irons...
...Pope's present state of health, Reporter Morgan tells how Pius XI has instituted "almost to the point of dogma," the dictum that the Pope must not be ill. When Cardinal Salotti dared to suggest, last year, that the Pope take a rest, "The Pontiff stirred. His face was grave with resentment. . . . 'The Lord has endowed you with many good qualities, Salotti,' decreed the Holy Father in acid and peremptory terms, 'but he denied you a clinical eye.' " Likewise, to a monk who made bold to admonish Pius XI to spare his legs...
...Said he quietly: "I should like to live a more leisurely life and put into effect some long deferred plans." Last week at his home in Philadelphia's suburban, wooded Wyncote, death overtook the 69-year-old editor in his quest for leisure. He had been ill with pneumonia a week...
...term last week needed a thorough rugbeating and airing in the minds of U. S. citizens it was "modernism" in architecture and design. A fact long apparent to thoughtful people was that there is often something fake, ill-fitting and hothouse about the designs for public buildings and monuments which graduates of great architectural schools turn out every year. Also apparent was the fact that there is something faddish and affected or else starved and forbidding about many examples of so-called "functional" design. After the fine economies of Colonial building disappeared in the U. S. during the 19th Century...