Word: illness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appendicitis, in October last; seventh, the death of Mrs. Harding, widow of the late President, last week. At White Oaks Farm, near Marion, where she had been making her home at the sanatarium of Dr. Carl W. Sawyer (son of the late White House physician), Mrs. Harding was seriously ill for about a month. She had been suffering for some years from a kidney trouble which nearly resulted in her death two years ago. A few days before the end, an alleviative operation was performed. Her death was quiet; for some hours she had gradually lapsed into unconsciousness. Her death...
...forecast (TIME, Nov. 24), General Ismet Pasha, Premier of Turkey, resigned because of ill-health. Fethi Bey, President of the Grand National Assembly, prominent at the meeting of the League of Nations Council at Brussels (TIME, Nov. 10), was appointed his successor...
Yagna began to feel ill at ease. Old men croaked dubious warnings as to the ominous consequences of the mating of youth with age. But the wedding went...
...Northern Africa. Consequently it is to their advantage that the North African peoples should cherish no dangerous ideas of nationalism, nor any hopes of successful defiance of European power. Spain has already set such ideas afoot by her incapacity to subdue the Moors, and France and Italy can ill afford to see the rise of similar convictions in Egypt. Great Britain, then, might logically hope for the support of these two powers during the League discussions, and such support would be by no means negligible. The suspicion grows that in withholding the dispute from the League the English government...
...worship of authors has never gone to greater lengths?lengths possibly of questionable value to their object. Idolatry has made of R. L. S. a figure dizzily perched on the precarious eminence of perfection. He is permitted no faults, no weaknesses?other than the exalted one of physical ill-health. On the other hand, there have been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile patron and intimate, who registered savage protest against the "Seraph in Chocolate," the "Barley-Sugar Effigy" of legend. With nicely considered moderation...