Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like this old barn. I won't play the piano in this old building." Next day a note was discovered addressed to Manager S. E. MacMillen: "Dear Sam, I think I am going crazy. I cannot play tonight. I am so sorry, but I am ill...
Your leading editor of today I find most pusillanimous with bastardy implied, perfidious in its ill-concealed splenetics, and hideous in its bombast. I cannot call it creditable journalism; too lame the tribute at its end, which does scant justice to a sheet of high repute, far higher than your...
Diplomats recalled that the President has been at some pains to make it clear that he intended no slight to Anton when he was forced to cut short the latter's ill-timed harang. A note of explanation was later despatched from the White House: ". . . it is not permissible for the President to receive public address from people of another nation, unless they be presented through the usual diplomatic channels...
...Chamber reassembled following the Christmas recess, a little knot of deputies, extremely ill at ease, was observed among the superconfident Fascists who make up Premier Mussolini's overwhelming majority...
...augurs ill for the permanent value, which it had been hoped this country would obtain from membership in the Court to see the Congressmen who favor such membership putting forth purely negative reasons for it. Nevertheless they but reflect the suspicious attitude of the country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only...