Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Texan" because of anti-big business editorial policy. Senator MacNaboe has sallied forth to purge Cornell of un-American activities. Dorgan has shielded the youth of Massachusetts from propaganda inspired by Moscow Gold. And now the LaFollette machine resentful of the political prestige of President Frank and in ill-defined personal disagreement with his policies, is hacking at a man whose eminence and liberalism have placed him among the foremost leaders of American education...
...when he went off vacationing. Running against the son of another famed Democrat, Bennett Champ Clark, Young Jim was elected president of Missouri's Young Democrats.* The heir-apparent got his first big test last June when, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Uncle Tom fell seriously ill of an intestinal ailment, was hospitalized. Young Jim, a platform committeeman at the Convention, went back to Missouri to run the campaign, earned a smashing triumph when the State returned record Democratic majorities for both national and State tickets. Last week in Kansas City, appearing at his offices...
...league. Average span of a National League footballer's career is four years. Price of players sold from one team to another runs as high as $7,500. Average pay check is $125 a game. The National League is made up of onetime college players. So was the ill-fated American League which started last September, disbanded before finishing its schedule. How unimportant "All-America" teams are is proved by professional records. Few All-Americans make good as professionals. Most outstanding professionals-their abilities undetected early enough for ambitious alumni to ease their way at major colleges-were members...
George J. Peak, Winchester, Ill. horse breeder: "A horse is like a child. He will take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...
...fell in with a particularly foul-mouthed crew. One pious soldier with whom he had attended church led the company the next night in singing that international smut champion. Here is the Story of the Captain's Wife, which proceeds through an unspeakable catalog of that exceptionally ill-favored lady's physical characteristics...