Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late one evening Joseph P. Tumulty returned home in Washington from a dinner. He had a severe cold. He thought he smelled gas and went upstairs to find his wife and daughters, Grace and Alice, violently ill and coughing. A physician was called and found them suffering from monoxide gas poisoning. The kitchen stove was suspected...
...Beach and many substantial citizens. There were taxi-loads of flowers. There were 10,000 people beside themselves to get into the Metropolitan Opera House, and arrogant mounted police out to control them. There were more than 5,000 people turned away, nine of whom took their disappointment so ill-humoredly that they were arrested for being disorderly. There were those who offered $100, $150 for a seat, one man who paid $25 for admission to stand. And through it all, a person who did not seem to lose her head was the girl with the voice that was creating...
Died. Jacob Haish, 99, "inventor of barbed wire," possibly the oldest bank president in the U. S. (Haish State, De Kalb, Ill.), millionaire; at De Kalb, of pneumonia...
...below who were watching with powerful telescopes and he has never been seen since. Captain John Baptist Noel who was with the expedition will give a lecture at 8 o'clock next Thursday evening in the Union Living Room which will be illustrated with moving pictures showing the ill fated expedition in the Himalayas...
...audiences are not filled with sour critics, but with boys who have come definitely for the inspiration and high amusement which education should afford. When a lecturer months his lines, when he forgets his part and fills up the gap with decadent verbiage, he is "strutting his hour" rather ill. And the man in the front of the orchestra who coughs and clacks at the wrong time is equally at fault. The three a week is a hard life for all concerned. Yet improvement is not impossible...