Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Ill...
...believe in, and propose to follow, the policy of the good neighbor. And they wish with all their heart that the rest of the world might do likewise. "The rest of the world-Ah! There's the rub. . . . The people of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers-a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war. ... To say the least, there are grounds for pessimism. . . . "Nations seeking expansion, seeking the rectification of injustices springing from former...
...clock (substituted for those stolen last summer) stood erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver his address on the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress that night. That address was also to be broadcast...
...appears therefore that Mr. Eden's line will be to carry on the existing repressive measures while seeking conciliation by putting up several weeks hence a new.offer in a form better adapted to the views of Geneva than the ill-fated Hoare-Laval proposal...
...pushed him as a prodigy, he had been lured to the U. S. by a promise of a concert tour, only to have his manager fail him. Other men's misfortunes led to his swift rise as a conductor. The leader at the Capitol was taken suddenly ill one day; within a few hours the young violinist stepped into his place. Four years ago Arturo Toscanini was unable to keep an engagement in Philadelphia; young Eugene Ormandy had another unexpected chance. He acquitted himself so creditably that he was called to Minneapolis to pinch-hit for ailing Henri Verbrugghen...