Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this scene is very funny. So are the results when the villains, now desperate, hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping the rise in blood pressure will kill him. But Genevieve falls in love with J. J., divulges the plot and J. J., seriously ill, backs the show with Norma, still unable to sing or dance, playing the lead...
...became general merchandise manager in six years. When he was in charge of Ward's retail stores his ambitions for his end of the business were so great as to jar the habitual harmony between Ward's mail order and retail business. Since he moved from Wilmette, Ill. to Montclair, N. J. he has had a lot of fun fishing as a member of the Atlanta Tuna Club at Block Island...
Died. Mrs. Elsa Einstein, double first cousin and wife of famed Professor Albert Einstein; after being ill a year with tuberculosis; at her home in Princeton...
...strange stock company known as "The Society of Particular Adventurers for Traffique with Virginia" which was formed to exploit the colonists. Also novel in Professor Andrews' first volume was his analysis of the human material of the colonies, those "lascivious sonnes, masters of bad servants, and wives of ill husbands" whose doings fill the criminal records and who were occasionally punished by being nailed to the pillory by the ears. Spies moved freely among them, since Spain maintained a well-knit espionage apparatus to keep informed on the progress of the feeble British outposts...
Second Andrews volume begins more dramatically with an account of the found ing of Rhode Island, moves through a realistic explanation of the liberal charter of Connecticut, the rivalry between the colonies and their intrigues in England, the collapse of the ill-fated New Haven col ony, and ends with the fall of the absolute lordship in Maryland in 1691. Its high point is in its account of the confusion in the New England colonies that followed the restoration of Charles II, the masterly diplomacy that saved them from punishment for their support of Cromwell. In 1643, Roger Williams...