Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indeed, it is this peril of the ill found pen which alarms F. P. A. in his "Conning Tower". Disturbed by the statement from Mayor Hylan that he is to ornament his already colored career with an attempt at writing, the genial "colyumist" warns the writing profession to stand by its guns--or pens. No writer can at will become a Walter Johnson or a Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle...
...week, all his men available for action. The squad came out of the Middlebury fray with only minor injuries. Moseley and Coady, removed from Saturday's game with bruises, will be ready, and at yesterday's practice, Maher, Chauncey, and Daley were present. None of them showed any ill effects from their injuries and they should be fit to face the Worcester invaders on Saturday...
...first Chairman of the Council of the League at its first meeting in Paris. In 1923 he resigned the Presidency of the French Senate, which he had held since 1918, in order to devote himself to the League. The recent session of the League Council found him too ill to attend. But he died in a measure triumphant, "the Spiritual Father of the League...
...Common Denominator," and became an active (soapbox preaching) part of the Great Purpose. Nothing is made very clear, except that Simon's two brothers ("Old Niggs" and "Old Charles") were unhappy and he was kind to them. The wife of one was ravishing but gambled and fell ill with smallpox. The wife of the other wanted to run off with a doctor but stopped when Simon notified her that "Old Charles" had cleared her way by blowing his own head...
Last week he called nitroglycerin to his aid in an attempt to get out. Just as he was about to touch off an ill considered charge which would have blown the jail and himself to atoms, he was shot at by a prison guard, and several other prosiners were wounded before he was killed...