Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson drove into Hillsboro, Ill. in a 1933 automobile for his first visit to his boyhood home in ten years. Announcing he might soon make a motion picture in Hollywood ("I know everyone there"), he chatted with old friends, bestowed his autograph, took to bed "to catch up on his sleep." Said a Hillsboro hotelman: "We have no criticism of Harry. In fact we glory in his spunk...
...Daughters has been shifted back to end from the backfield, where his possibilities as a ball carrying back were being examined. Although he may be converted into a carrier next season, end coach Fesler felt that his squad could ill afford to loose any of its strength at this stage...
...Kankakee, Ill., restrained by a city ordinance from killing squirrels which raided his kitchen, City Engineer Hobart D. Gregg planned to steal the squirrels' winter supply of walnuts, declared: "I know where they are, and turn about should be fair play...
...folio of the State Dept." The week before the 61-year-old Fish had read the list of Grant's amateurish Cabinet selections with alarm, noting that one choice was plainly illegal, others were determined by the President's desire to aid his old friends from Galena, Ill., all by a naive concept of the President's responsibilities...
...Danny suffers from loneliness, becomes a passionate student of big-league batting records, slowly learns a few of the facts of life from the brutal disclosures of his big brother Bill. He starts school, gets sick, snitches on Bill, gets beaten up, is becoming a moody, evasive, introspective child, ill at ease both in his own home and at his grandmother's, when the book ends. Around his story revolve those of his kinspeople: Uncle Al is a shoe-salesman, a zealous defender of banal ideas and a tyrannical foster-father; Brother Bill is a sneak thief...