Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call my great countryman, the ace of all aces, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, a "sportsman"? [Nov. 30 issue P. 14.] That English term of praise befits him ill. He was a true German. In his person he epitomized unflinching might. He was no weak "sportsman. You English and American only call him one in order that as the "nations of sportsmen" you may seem to imply that he was one of you and share his glory...
...Just suppose that the chairman of a woman's club were to announce that any lady could talk as long as she pleased on a cure for rheumatism or the boundaries of Azerbaijan. The women would think it an ill-timed joke, for a minute. Then, if that really happened, they'd agree that the chairman was mentally unbalanced...
Several officers who served aboard the ill-fated Shenandoah testified that the fatal flight was voluntarily undertaken, that the ship was in good condition, and that they did not regard it as unfit...
...Road to Yesterday. Cecil De Mille, the prophet of midnight bathing parties and purple society dramas, has suddenly turned serious and to ill-effect. He has produced a drama in which the modern craze for psychology and complexes is the inspiration. It is a strange hybrid and smacks of Hollywood. Joseph Schildkraut is the star. His personality and appeal, so valuable in the legitimate box office, do not screen particularly impressively...
...action of local school or public officials. It is not the mere contagion of a purpose temporarily in the minds of many people. It is encouraged, supervised and regulated by the War Department. The purpose is to make soldiers. It is not training in citizenship, or any vague and ill-defined training of a general military nature. The official object is to provide systematic military training at civil educational institutions for the purpose of qualifying selected students of such institutions for appointment as reserve officers in the military forces of the United States...