Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission yet awarded by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts: $29,000 for frescoes to decorate the new St. Louis post office. The winners: small, dark, intense Edward Millman and small, dark, less intense Mitchell Siporin, longtime friends, who last collaborated on murals for the Decatur, Ill. post office...
...Cuban leper, his arm scarred and painfully ulcerated, was bitten by a poisonous tropical spider. Strangely enough, he felt no ill effects, and the searing pain in his arm diminished for several days. His doctor passed the remarkable news on to his colleagues and soon the Pasteur Institute in Paris began work on the use of animal poisons for relief of uncontrollable pain. That was ten years ago. Most practical poison to use, the French scientists discovered, is cobra venom, which is easy to extract, measure and inject. Fortnight ago, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Robert Northwall...
Wilford Cook Saeger '04, whose signature graced tens of thousands of Bursar's Cards, has resigned as Bursar because of ill health, after holding the position for twelve years. Saeger has been kept from his work in Lehman Hall since early in the summer because of illness...
...Pleased was he that a painting of his ancestor, peering through dawn's early light, was unveiled in Fort McHenry by Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, the tireless patriot who in 1931 helped make The Star-Spangled Banner the official as well as the actual national anthem. But so ill-pleased was he by the political overtones of an address by Presidential Aspirant Paul V. McNutt that he slipped quietly off the platform, went home before the celebrations were over...
Comfortably brought up in Alton, Ill., in a period when a girl was "much more than a girl," young Hapgood was athletic, introspective, drawn to people "who are not worth while." At Harvard he read Shelley and Wordsworth, was complimented by Santayana for a deeply philosophical remark: "All girls are beautiful." Post-graduate study in Europe included art museums, mistresses, drinking, sightseeing, conversation, desultory reading. Said young Novelist Robert Herrick one day: "Hutch, you don't do a damned thing, do you?" Like many another obtuse observer, says Hapgood, Herrick was apparently correct. But "if I wasn...