Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's physical infirmity was reviewed in Tevere, with this conclusion: "One can understand why Roosevelt pushes his country toward war. He is a man of catastrophe, he is a man of ill luck, and he wants to bring ill luck to America." To U. S. Ambassador William Phillips this seemed a bit too much. He protested to Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Result: continued front-page anti-U. S. editorials in almost every Italian newspaper...
...Mary's Cathedral (Episcopal), fasted himself into the news (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). Attempting to prove that "the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink," Dean Noe kept it up for 22 days, was then deposed by his bishop for his "vagary" and taken, gravely ill, to a hospital...
Fernande Olivier, a model who lived with him then and for the next 14 years, has said he was ". . . small, black, stubby, unquiet, disquieting, with sombre, deep, piercing, strange, almost fixed eyes. Awkward gestures, feminine hands, ill-dressed, ill-cared for. A thick, black, brilliant forelock divided the intelligent protuberant forehead. Half-bohemian, half-workman in his dress; his overlong hair swept the collar of a tired coat...
Rowdy and tough are the boys in little Oswego (Ill.) High School. Last month they hounded Principal Melvin G. Attig to suicide (TIME, Jan. 2). Shocked Oswegans hoped that the tragedy would startle the boys into decency, but they took no chances. As the new principal they picked a gruff-voiced six-footer, Clarence Salter. To everybody's amazement, Oswego's rowdies, unchastened by Melvin Attig's breakdown, promptly started to haze Principal Salter. Two days after his arrival they rang a false alarm, brought fire engines shrieking to the school...
While in general agreement with your editorial LOCKING THE BARN DOOR, I would like to take exception to certain statements. You call the Harvard petition urging the President to raise the embargo on Spain "ill-timed and misdirected" and urge Harvard men "instead of petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic, to take a more constructive line...