Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result, inevitable from the first, was terrible to behold. Strong men fainted, and one ill-starred lampoon sympathizer died from grief and pity as he beheld the sweeping avalanche of CRIMSON tallies pulverize lampoon hopes, annihilate lampoon hurlers, and bury the puny lampoon total of two runs under a score far beyond the wildest aspirations of mere mortal batters and base runners. After the thunderburst of journalistic prowess had finally spent itself, after the wreckage had been cleared away enough for the umpires to discover the battered remains of what had once been lampy's proud diamond hope...
Letting gas out of his balloon, Captain Gray began to descend. At 8,000 feet, he found himself falling faster than would be pleasant for a landing, so he adjusted his parachute, stepped out into nothingness, floated to the ground uninjured at Golden Gate, Ill., 100 miles from Scott Field (Belleville, Ill.) his starting point. His trip to the outer edge of the world and back took two and one-half hours...
...worked the arms of Walter Boothe, 18-year-old farm boy, up and down, up and down, during every second of more than two weeks. His lungs had collapsed, and they were hand-pumping air into him. The case was similar to that of Albert Frick of Evanston, Ill. (TIME, March 21). But whereas Albert Frick lived thus artificially for 108 hours, Walter Boothe was kept alive 378 hours, until his death last week...
Married. W. Lee Smith, 32, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klu Klux Klan; to Katharine Halbig, 24; secretly, after eloping; at Louisville, Ill. Indiana Klansmen, discovering last week that the bride is a Roman Catholic, were reported to be "in a rage...
...George Eliot what the Prince Consort did for Queen Victoria." The reader is not surprised to learn that in spite of her unconventional marriage the novelist enjoyed the friendship and esteem of most of the other great ones of her time, and that when Lewes was ill a messenger enquired after his health from the court of Queen Victoria...