Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution which was so largely of Sir Samuel Hoare's making, he said of himself on becoming Foreign Secretary: "I think that scores of people will bear out my contention that, though many of them disagreed with my line of conduct, and felt that my proposals were unwise or ill-timed. I have ended my period with more personal friends, from Gandhi on the left to many Indian princes on the extreme right, than has any previous Secretary of State for India." A great statesman, a great Englishman, and now a popular hero, Samuel John Gurney Hoare emerged...
...forethought, however, to take out my letter from Cardinal Hayes, and on top of this, fastening it with a clip, I put my New York Times calling card. It was identification. I was all alone. I was not afraid, oh, no. But I might faint or become ill. I knew no Italian and no one there was likely to know any English. And no one there knew me. Folded in my handkerchief I had a very tiny bottle of smelling salts, in case I might have again what I had the previous night. Over my arm I draped the rosaries...
...Chicago, Ill...
Centralia, Ill...
...sorely disappointed to learn that United Air Lines had forbidden its valuable "Benny" Howard to fly in any of the hazardous pylon races. Still, the Colonel found some consolation in the thought of beating Mister Mulligan, which was entered under the skillful guidance of little Harold Neumann of Moline, Ill., who had already walked off with the rich Greve Trophy in Designer Howard's atom-small White Mike. The Labor Day crowd of 80,000 was overwhelmingly behind the gaudy Turner and the same golden plane in which he had lost the Bendix Race...