Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coward, you coward!' And then? The man who pays you is always in the right. Saturday evening came. I said to the padrone I intended to leave and therefore wished to be paid. He went into his office. I remained in the lobby. Presently he came out. With ill-disguised rage he threw into my hands 20 lire and some centesimi, saying: 'Here is your money and it is stolen.' I remained as though made of stone. What was I to do to him? Kill him? What did I do to him? Nothing. Why? Because...
...Majesty Queen Victoria, 64, of Sweden continued last week dangerously ill of a lung disorder complicated by heart attacks, at Solliden, Oeland, Sweden. Her long illness, having lasted through the spring and summer, was deemed crucial...
...Excellency, Premier Carl Gustaf Ekman, who recently took office, lay ill last week at Stockholm, suffering from a blood clot...
...vibration in that motor. Over Nova, Ohio, the motor tore loose from its mounting, threw a piece of debris into another propeller, smashing it and leaving the plane with only one propeller to land by. It was an unforseeable accident, due not so much to mechanical deficiency as to ill luck. Aeronauts mourned that the most widely advertised of commercial ships should thus come to grief and shake public confidence in the very event most calculated to promote flying...
...Trenton, N. J. Jurist Rogers, aggressive, forced the "case system" on conservative Yale law-dons, as stumbling old "Kit" Langdell had done to Harvard 25 years before. Died. Gaitan Ardisson, 74, sculptor-adviser to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney; at the Whitney estate, Wheatley Hills, Westbury, L. I. Aged, ill, Sculptor Ardisson clambered wearily up a 100 ft. water tower, leapt. In his pocket was a note, "Mrs. Whitney-you win. Tan-Tan, [his son], tout est atteint [all is accomplished]." Died. William H. Thompson, 75, president of the Thompson Time Stamp† Co.; in Manhattan. Died. Charles William Eliot...