Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican Senators, ill particular, had many vexing items to dis cuss-not the least of which was the status of Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier...
...morning last May in Joliet, Ill., seven convicts in the Stateville penitentiary (four of them were already murderers, one of them was only 19, three of them were Mexicans) talked feverishly together. Why not be free? Part of it was easy-they had a crowbar and several pairs of scissors. Deputy Warden Peter N. Klein resisted them. Convict Duchowski, who had killed a Chicago policeman, broke the Warden's skull with the crowbar; others stabbed him with their scissors. One thing remained. They must help Nathan F. Leopold Jr., the boy who killed for a thrill, escape with them...
...Wang Chung-Hui, Yale graduate, subscribed, with reservations, to the report of the Commission which was chairmaned by the U. S. delegate, Silas Hardy Strawn, graduate of the high school at Ottawa, Ill., potent Chicago lawyer and counselor of industry...
Thousands of Japanese, increasingly alarmed by the Emperor's recently aggravated ill health, began last week to "purify" themselves, on the theory that just as the virtue of the Tenno (emperor) is supposed to effect the well-being of his subjects, so an increase in their purity should benefit the Emperor...
...other explanation comes from the Greek Orthodex ritual where three candles must be lighted with one paper. By people of opposite faith, it has been considered sacrelegiously ill-omened to kindle three lights with...