Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local family physician about it, he said he had never heard of it. and could not see how the damage would come about. Now in your last issue (March 25, p. 50) you speak of "the doctors treatises which warn all oboe-players against congestion in the head." W ill you please advise me whether this statement is facetious, and if not. what is your authority for it? I know that the oboe is an expensive instrument, but if it also turns out to be dangerous, something must be done...
...spite of the fact that the Asiatic Fleet makes an annual courtesy call on some Japanese city every year, U. S. pacifists still retained their gloomy forebodings, recalled that the Maine's ill-fated "courtesy call" at Havana in 1898 precipitated the Spanish...
...dour Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of the Christian Catholic (Apostolic) Church, longtime political boss of outlandish Zion, Ill., believer in a flat World and often prophet of its imminent end. the world which he had spent 25 years in building last week crumbled. Zion's voters defeated all but one of his candidates for local office. Creditors of Zion Industries and Institutions Inc., bent on a receivership reorganization which would exclude Voliva from all share in its management, had him haled into Federal court...
...represented by a scatter-brained Gibson Girl whose husband has gone off to die in the Spanish War. The year 1920 sees crabbed old Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles in painting and ill-advised speculation. Then Mrs. Joseph Kelly gets "Tall Trees" out of profits from chewing gum, settles there with a corrupt political boss. The Crash gives the estate to the Howlands' onetime gardener, who has bettered himself financially by bootlegging. The last women seen at "Tall Trees," now a roadhouse...
...glued to their radios in the U. S. If the Lord Mayor's prediction, of which they were entirely unaware, came true, it meant $143,000 to a Bronx housewife, a Philadelphia bartender who had signed his ticket "Five Glasses," the wife of a hotel proprietor of Olney, Ill., a Toronto x-ray technician and one Ann Goldberg of Philadelphia, as well as smaller prizes for hundreds of others whose names', addresses and reactions the U. S. Press was last week waiting eagerly to investigate...