Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expansive was the mood of the Premier after the warmth of his African receptions that he chose to ignore the latest manifestation of Italian ill will. Special Correspondent Jérôme Tharaud of the Paris-Soir arrived at Genoa by plane en route to Djibouti. Even though he had an Italian visa, the Fascist police interrupted his voyage, escorted him back to the French frontier. Reason: Italy claimed M. Tharaud had written articles uncomplimentary to Italian soldiers in Spain...
When the "undergraduate faculty" plan was launched last spring, however, P.B.H. at long last started to apply a fundamental cure to a few of the "one-third of the nation who are ill-fed, ill-clothed, and ill-housed." With education as their weapon, the student tutors are striking eventually at the reasons for adult perversions. The long-run results of this new program do not bear fruit as yet. But the immediate consequences are equally important. Tutor no less than tutee will benefit from such contacts; it is the "faculty" as well as the pupils who receive the education...
...about to march over the border from Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia) and seize the country. As long as 18 months ago, Paris colonial officials noted that detachments of Il Duce's troops had occupied areas on what was probably the French side of the ill-defined French Somaliland-Italian East African border. For weeks the fascist radio station at Addis Ababa had broadcasted predictions that the French would be pushed out of Somaliland into...
Stock vaudeville gag for 25 years because of its funny Indian name, the little city of Kankakee, Ill. (pop. 20,000) was the hometown of the late Pen-&-Inkman Frank D. Waterman, the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Cinemactor Fred MacMurray. Purring contentedly in a crook in the Kankakee River 56 miles south of Chicago, it is proud of its humming industries (overalls, silk stockings, furniture, farm implements), is famed for its huge State insane asylum. Last week Kankakee purred so loudly that the whole nation heard...
...Geneva the wife of Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Wartime German Ambassador to the U. S., revealed that he was so broken up by the death last march of Colonel E. M. House, one-time confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson, that he has been ill ever since...