Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Reed Smoot, taken ill in the Senate, left the floor and physicians were called. "A severe attack of indigestion," they diagnosed and he was sent home. Later, the diagnosis was changed to "breakdown- two weeks complete rest necessary...
...Representative John Nance Garner, of Texas, seriously ill; reported recovering...
...going to violate the rules now, and I hope the Speaker will not call me to order, when I ask you to give three cheers for Jack Garner.* I like you ill, and I like Blanton."* They cheered. So the 68th Congress closed its last session. In three months it had accomplished chiefly...
...satiric canvases of Zuloaga; the sales had reached a huge sum. Fewer sales, fewer observers attended the Bellows exhibit. At the announcement of Zuloaga's gift, U. S. friends and artists talked among themselves. Zuloaga, they knew, had only twice met Bellows. Such phrases of their colloquy as "ill-advised," "condescension," "poor taste," "advertisement" were permitted, not unintentionally, to come to the ears of Zuloaga. Last week, his offer was withdrawn...
Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor, last week returned to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after having been absent, ill with typhoid, for almost three months. When he, as Canio in Pagliacci, drove on the stage in the prescribed donkey-cart, standees, gallery-devils, box-holders interrupted the orchestra to applaud; in a convenient pause, the musicians themselves laid down their flutes, their fiddles, applauded with the audience; when he finished singing the famed aria Vesti la giubba the ovation was taken up again, lasted for five minutes. Martinelli, bowing and bowing, shed tears of gratitude...