Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anecdotage provoked by the Jubilee drew from equine-featured Margot Asquith's daughter-in-law Lady Cynthia this: "Once the Queen was ill and the King was sitting by her bedside holding her hand, when she fell asleep. Afraid that if he moved she would be awakened, the King remained in the same position for several hours. Another time the King said with deep feeling, 'If anything were to happen to the Queen I should...
...audion tube in 1907. Far from cordial was Philco Radio & Television Corp., which has small esteem for metal tubes and no stomach whatever for a possible public swing in that direction. Philco bought a full page in the New York Times ($4,500) to launch a counterblast. Recalling an ill-starred experiment with metal tubes in Britain, Philco warned that a "pell mell rush" into metal might also have disastrous consequences here. Points...
...programs at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House were done in gold one night last week. On either side of the stage hung laurel wreaths topped by the dates 1885 and 1935. What happened there in 1885 has long been a matter of history: Dr. Leopold Damrosch was mortally ill with pneumonia and his 23-year-old son saved two performances by conducting for him. Last week Walter Damrosch was in the Metropolitan's pit once more, not to say farewell but to celebrate a golden jubilee...
Early in February 1932 a young woman named Patricia Maguire who lived in suburban Oak Park, Ill. and worked as a secretary on the Chicago Herald & Examiner went to see her family physician, complained of being extraordinarily drowsy all day long. Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut gave her a thorough examination, could ind nothing wrong with her. Within a fortnight the attack of epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness) from which Patricia Maguire suffered put her into a stupor from which she has not yet recovered. Her case attracted widespread newspaper attention. On the anniversary of her first symptoms, on her birthday...
...years later Johnson was writing: "Dr. Goldsmith has a new comedy in rehearsal at Covent Garden to which the manager predicts ill success." "She Stoops to Conquer," had at last been hit on as a name, and the opening was set for the night of March 15th, 1773. But the rehearsals dragged badly. Colman's pessimism was contagious. The actors walked through their parts like sulky children. At the last minute the male lead quit, and an erstwhile Harlequin had to take over the part...