Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday, however, as one Harvard man to another, the President named Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court of the United States, and this nomination is an example of vision as sound and enlightened as Black's was ill-considered and petty. For most of his twenty-five years at the Law School Frankfurter has symbolized to Boston's State Street interests a dangerous and bombthrowing form of liberalism, a reputation which he gained from his participation in the Tom Mooney commission and the Sacco-Vanzetti trails. In 1932 these interests heaved a sigh of relief when he refused his appointment...
...Welles said it seemed to him the desire of the German Government to make a protest of this character came with singular ill grace. For the past few months he had followed carefully the German press, which he was sure the Charge d'Affaires could hardly dispute was completely under the influence and dictation of the authorities of the German Government, and he had rarely read more unjustifiable criticism or open attacks on members of another Government...
...Boers began making mistakes, biggest of which was to dream of a fortune he would scoop in three years from St. Paul's waters. He bought a Newfoundland trawler, L'lle Bourbon, spent a small fortune transforming it into a floating refrigerator. Then he assembled as ill-assorted a crew as ever walked up a gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer; a doctor and his wife, a Parisian...
...public-health departments, began his intensive collection of experience. In Seattle and San Francisco, he helped many prostitutes who wanted to go home and resume respectability. Samaritan Taylor had a friendly department-store owner write each girl's family that she had been employed in his store, was ill, needed rest. Families sent fares, brought their wayward daughters home, learned no distasteful truth...
Eighteen months ago Melvin G. Attig, 26, a high-school teacher in Aurora, Ill. ignored the advice of his principal and friend, took a job as high-school principal in nearby Oswego, Ill. (pop. 1,200). He knew that it was no sinecure, for many Oswegans were angry over removal of his predecessor, but he did not know it was a killing...