Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Urbana, Ill. "Shotgun" George Ziegler was the alias of a student who appears on Registrar Tuttle's records as Fred Samuel Goetz, graduated by Illinois in 1922 but without credit in landscaping or athletics...
Leaping Parson. Two years after William Knudsen arrived in the U. S., a son was born to a rural schoolman named Martin on a farm near Marion, Ill. Named Homer, the boy grew up lithe, springy, idealistic, became a star track man at Missouri's tiny William Jewell college, won the national hop, step & jump championship in 1924. Having begun preaching when he was 19, he was dubbed "The Leaping Parson." In 1931, brimming with zeal for applied Christianity, Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most...
...plane works away stiff-legged and importantly over the rough ground. Like an ill-tempered old somebody awakened too early, she shrugs her shoulders from side to side as each wheel sinks into...
...cocktails. 3 gal. of miscellaneous liquors. 40 gal. of beer. Cost: $50,000. Feted in Evanston. Ill., on the 50th anniversary of her Schmidt Costume Co. was Mrs. Minna Moscherosch Schmidt...
First to be called into Mr. Gravell's office last week was a truck driver. Ill at ease when questioned about his finances, he finally admitted payments on a $6,500 mortgage were hard to meet. "Well, John," Mr. Gravell said, "don't worry about it. Here's the $6,500. Go pay off the mortgage." Astonished, John mumbled his thanks, promised not to give away what the boss was doing. One after another Mr. Gravell watched his employes squirm, then gave them checks for doctor bills, past-due installments on radios, mortgages, or, if they were...