Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Confidence reigned among Dartmouth followers last night. The big Green eleven, still smarting from its defeat by Yale, was not burdened by over-confidence, but was filled with a fighting spirit that boded ill for the Crimson...
...building, located just north of the hospital on Rope Ferry Road, is nearly completed. It is to be devoted to the care of Dartmouth undergraduates who are ill, or even slightly indisposed, and will provide surroundings congenial and attractive to them. It is designed to present the atmosphere of a social club rather than that of an institution, and a house mother is to be appointed to attend to the social features of the house...
...house in this story of Myra Henshawe stood behind a tall iron fence in a ten-acre park at Parthia, Ill. Myra, an orphan, was John Driscoll's great-niece and he brought her up there, a forceful, coarse old Irishman and a vivid, a wild little girl. She had jewels and many gowns and a Steinway piano. She rode keen horses. The town band played at her parties and serenaded John Driscoll on his birthday; he had bought the bandsmen their silver instruments and when they played for him he treated with his best whiskey. He had wrung...
...occasions when the Rockefeller Foundation calls Detroit "the vilest city in the country," or when a newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio (TIME, July 26). However, there is one town which has recently raised the visceral tension of the righteous about once a month. That town is Cicero, Ill., a Utopian nook for the twins. Here on the western fringe of Chicago is a polyglot population of 62,000-Irishmen, Italians, Sicilians, Slavs and many another tribe. The Western Electric Co. employs thousands of them; other industries are near and plentiful. But it is to the gangs...
Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman: "Home last week from France, where I had awaited the arrival of Pilot Rene Fonck and comrades in the ill-fated Sikorsky plane with which they had hoped to win my standing offer of $25,000 for a non-stop flight between New York and Paris (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.), I revealed that one-legged Pilot Paul Tarascon* and one-eyed Pilot François Coli, Frenchmen, were all but ready to try for my money in a flight from Paris to New York, next fortnight. These two tried to fly over last year...