Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Managing Editor Chicago Times Chicago, Ill...
Last week baseball fans suddenly realized that the 71-year-old Emperor of the Yankee Empire was gravely ill. In their papers they read that Babe Ruth, long estranged from the colonel, had gone to his bedside for a touching reunion. Next morning death came to Jacob Ruppert...
Last October, Colonel Ruppert did not see the World Series. Ill with phlebitis (inflammation of the veins), he listened at his radio, beamed with joy as he heard his beloved Yankees annihilate the Chicago Cubs in four straight victories. The colonel was as pleased as Punch. His Yankees were toasted as the greatest team in baseball history, the only outfit that ever won three World Series in a row. His farm teams, too, were tops. Of his 14 minor-league teams, eight won their pennants, one took the Little World Series, and four others got into playoffs...
...more than a month Wall Street and Washington have heard that roly-poly Howard Hopson, kingpin of $1,038,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric Co., was so ill he was under an oxygen tent. Since Mr. Hopson has often been "ill" when the Government wanted him for hearings and investigations of his fabulous operations, many a cynic wondered whether the utility magnate's latest indisposition was a portent of further trouble...
...Note: Harvard's proposed marriage course, which was widely petitioned for recently, must still be termed strictly tentative. Nevertheless, Harvard can ill afford to overlook the opportunities presented by domestically inclined North Carolinians, especially when the prospectus for the Conference proclaims: "The program of this conference, as was true of those preceding, is made up of co-laborers in the field of marriage...