Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court shocker (see p. 16) and the fateful automobile strike in Flint and Detroit (see below), the Great Flood of 1937 seeped off the nation's front pages last week. But for a half-million people along the lower Mississippi it was still prime news. From Cairo, Ill. to New Orleans an army of 125,000 reliefers, convicts and volunteers worked feverishly to raise and strengthen the thousand-mile, billion-dollar levee system which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river's back reached Memphis at week...
...Freeport, Me., was named for Sir Andrew Freeport. Freeports in Ohio and Kansas were named for an unremembered Freeport whence came the first settlers. How Freeport, Va. was named is unknown. Freeport, Ill. was named after First Settler William ("Tutty") Baker, who was so lavish with food and shelter to wayfarers that his wife complained: "What is this we have made of our home, a free port?" Freeport, Minn., originally called Oak Station, was renamed after Freeport, Ill. as was Freeport, Mich...
...Merivale is now sad because he is a small-town English nonconformist parson who has to live in a ghastly house with a leaking roof, put up with a whining wife, stand for any amount of bulldozing from his parishioners and much bad cooking from a gabbling, ill-trained slattern. He is sadder when one of his younger parishioners runs away. He is a little more cheerful when he goes after her and falls in love with her, but then he is much sadder than ever when she is killed in an off-stage railway wreck from which he escapes...
...82nd time) toward Manila, in the Vatican Pius XI was gaining strength, and as the Conte Rosso entered Manila Bay last week the Pope was being moved about in a wheeled divan, doing more work and receiving more visitors than at any time since he fell ill two months ago. As Archbishop O'Doherty said last week: "Our fervent prayers ascended to the high heavens, beseeching God to prolong life of such a great Pontiff. Thank God our prayers were heard." On Saturday the Pope quietly passed the 15th anniversary of his election to the Chair of St. Peter...
...wishing to do the normal, allotted work as quickly as possible. In their paths is thrown the stumbling block of the extra rule, without apparent regard for the most ordinary principles of justice. A flexible educational; program must consider the differing demands of various intellects, and eliminate rigid and ill-considered restrictions...