Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gregorian calendar with one of his own, which has 13 months to the year, four weeks to the month, and one extra day each year which would be a super-holiday. Such a calendar, said the able professor, would run until the year 17600 A. D. with no ill effects, except to deprive women of Leap Years, which will come only once each 600 years...
...Grosberg," she answered; lying in intent yet speaking the absolute truth. From 1908 to 1917 she and her famed husband were indeed Mr. and Mrs. Grosberg, proprietors of Berg's Progressive Preparatory School at Chicago, Ill. Last week, however, this lying-truth availed nothing. The Chinese officer had probably been warned by spies in advance of Mme. Borodin's coming. He arrested her and the couriers, put them on an armored train under heavy guard, and rushed them as valuable hostages to Tsinan, Shantung, capital of their chief enemy, "Chang of Shantung," notorious, unprincipled War Lord...
...whose name Amherst College bears: "For some months I have assisted Alexander Woollcott by writing dramatic reviews for the New York World, modestly signed with two of my many initials-J. H. Last week I received word that my father, the Fourth Earl of Amherst, aged 71, was desperately ill. Forthwith, I sailed for England hoping to see him alive. Three days out, I heard that he had died suddenly; found myself Fifth Earl of Amherst...
Albert Frick lay propped on the hospital bed, languid, breathing by hand. He had felt miserable; had had a couple of teeth pulled at the dentist's. Going home to his rooming-house in Evanston, Ill., outside Chicago, muggy-minded, dazed, a motor car had hit him, hurt the back of his neck a trifle. Now he was in St. Francis Hospital, Evanston...
...Preparatory Commission for a Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations meets to day to resume those discussions which last May proyed so fruitless as to warrant their long adjournment. Within the last week, France has made it only too clear that President Coolidge's somewhat ill-timed proposal can expect no Gallic support. And Russia still stands aloof on the edge of Europe, an inevitable bar to any effective disarmament in Europe...