Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cynicism and satire of numerous contemporaneous works is not unwelcome. It is, therefore, with considerable enthusiasm that we welcome the "glad girl" back to Boston. The piece is refreshing. Its sincerity is as welcome as it is undeniable. We might even suggest that its presentation is not altogether ill-timed...
...with ballast tanks which may be emptied by compressed air so as to enable him to rise to the surface and maneuver. Because the diver, thus converted into a sort of one-man submarine, is not subjected to high air pressure, he can rise to the surface rapidly without ill effects...
...cathedrals, offices, country houses. He built the chapel at West Point, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Russell Sage Memorial at Far Rockaway, N. Y., the permanent buildings of the Panama Exposition. Over 50, he entered a competition for the Nebraska Capitol, won it, but overworked, fell ill. A great ceremony was planned for his 55th birthday, Apr. 25, 1924. On that day, the National Academy of Sciences at Washington was to be dedicated. Two days before the dedication, Mr. Goodhue died...
...Hersey also brought out the fact that Bostonians were accused of pseudo-culture long before the day of Hampden and Clive; he quoted the memoirs of an 1850 dramatist who bewailed the ill fortune of Shakespeare, Sheridan, and the like, when any cheap production with glitter, blare, and tinsel packed the house...
Loring Chase Merwin of Bloomington, Ill...