Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sought an introduction to me and forthwith stared at me with ill-mannered inquiries about my sales income and such like impertinences...
Since each man has commented venomously on the manner and culture of the other, the fight will not be friendly. The literary world can settle back with a good cigar to enjoy a mental boxing bout between two men not ill matched. The Atlantic ocean is no bar to the acidity of the printed word...
...therefore that a song acceptable to all the other clubs is not good enough for Harvard is certainly not cricket. Further, to characterize as "mush" a composition by Horatio Parker, whose ideals and achievements in music placed him in the front rank of American composers, is a bit of ill-considered and discourteously expressed criticism that will displease many musicians and be especially resented at Yale, where, as Dean of the Music School, Professor Parker won the affection and reverence of countless students...
...Oldest Living Graduate. At all events, in their three corners of the country, Mr. Depew's three living classmates held their aged peace. They were: Dr. Virgil M. Dow, retired medico of New Haven, Conn.; James L. Rackleff, lawyer of Portland, Me.; and Nathan L. Hazen, agriculturalist of Philo, Ill., who, though he discontinued his studies at the end of his first year of Yale, still remembers...
Head First. Oliver Morosco, who long ago gave the world the unforgettable Peg 'o My Heart, has produced only spasmodically and with ill success of recent years. His present contribution is gruesomely numbered with the growing list of entertainments at which first night audiences have this season tittered. It tells of a business woman who grew very rich and remained nevertheless faithful to her inefficient husband...