Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington. Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised. This year the President apparently realized the paradox, for Mr. Doherty excused himself from the job on ground of ill health. To provide publicity for the balls and themselves, a battalion of major and minor Hollywood names descended on Washington in general, Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Mrs. Roosevelt displaying what she insists is not a modified bob but merely a close side trim (see cut), introduced some of them...
Shocked, Dean Noe said nothing as he accepted the bishop's verdict. The dean had been unable to go to a diocesan convention in Knoxville because, at the last minute, Mrs. Noe took ill, collapsed. Because of that convention, no weekday services were held in the Cathedral, and for the first time ousted Dean Noe went for a week without the communion bread & wine which had previously solaced, and partially nourished, him. Some 30 members of the parish were reported anxious to join him in his fast, but he attempted to discourage them. At week...
Immortal No. 14, whose career, like most baseballers', has been a poignant illustration of the old baseball adage-a hero in the third inning may look like a bum in the seventh-was last week swapping tales with local barflies in the Empire Hotel at Springfield, Ill., when he was informed of his fortunate rescue from obscurity. One of the most effective right-handed pitchers of all time, Grover Cleveland ("Old Pete") Alexander, now 50, could review a career that reached its third inning in the 1926 World Series (between the Cardinals and Yankees) when, after a night...
...Detroit factory it will turn out a line of small (1 to 6 cylinders, 22 to 160 h. p.) lightweight Diesel engines at the rate of 50 a day, produce engines up to 1,200 h. p. at factories in Cleveland and La Grange, Ill. Secrets of GM economy are new light alloys and a production schedule using the same parts in engines of the same cylinder size. Suitable for direct drive operations on tractors, pumps, hoists and the like, the engines will also come in "packaged power" units (engine & generator teams) to power theatres, parking lots, small industrial enterprises...