Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Waukegan, Ill...
...Washington, to work "with the office boys of the State Department underworld." He soon became chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. President Taft, aware of his abilities, sent him back to London (where his career had begun) to the duties of Ambassador, Whitelaw Reid being in ill health. President Wilson, aware, made him Assistant Secretary of State during the War, and later gave to him the post of Minister to the Netherlands. In 1924 he reached the top title, Ambassador, his assignment being to Belgium...
Bernice Ridhardson. President Mark Embury Penney of Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.) had just read newspaper accounts of Miss Lanun's suicide and was thinking how terrible it would be if such a thing should happen in his institution, when news reached him that pretty Bernice Richardson, 20, one of his freshmen, whom he had just interviewed, had been found moaning on the floor of her room. She had drunk carbolic acid; died within an hour. In their interview President Penney had had to tell her that, since she had failed in French course, she could not register...
...solution of limitation all round. The consternation yesterday of the paper patriots as reported in the metropolitan press was highly amusing. The manner in which they rushed to the support of the proposal and at the same time tried with much twisting and turning to have the cruisers augurs ill for this little attempt to ape the "Deutschland uber Alles" methods when it comes before the House again in the near future...
...three months. James Timoney, part owner, is seriously considering putting the play in Madison Square Garden--and he could probably draw a full house. The most cruel punishment which could be desired for the manager of "The Drag" would be to enforce an edict forbidding newspapers to mention ill-smelling drama...