Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large, loose-knit man born 65 years ago in Bethany, Ill., Senator Jones has never taken a drink (that he knows of), has never smoked tobacco, has seen, he says, only one drunken man in all his life. His range of legislative interest has by no means been confined to prohibition. No smooth speaker, never brilliant, his name is nevertheless upon the latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment...
...sung and talked for certain performers: for Richard Barthelmess (Weary River), one Frank Withers; for Louise Brooks (The Canary Murder Case), one Margaret Livingston. ¶ In Beverly Hills Mabel Normand, sick with tuberculosis, was not told, for fear that she would worry, that her husband, Lew Cody, was also ill. In a San Bernardino health resort Cody, in bed with a nervous breakdown following influenza, was kept ignorant, for a similar reason, that there was anything the matter with his wife...
...losers. Only H. C. Morphett, No. 5, sat erect in the shell. His seven were slumped in collapse. They were hurried to the boathouse. Six revived quickly. The seventh, P. D. Barr, bow, remained unconscious for 30 minutes. He had taken his place in the shell though ill with influenza...
...still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle, Executive Secretary of the Lincoln Centennial Association of Springfield, Ill., who admitted his delight at the opportunity to "put the magazine of the country in the frying pan and cook it brown." Uncooked and still open-minded, Editor Sedgwick gathered together all reasoned criticisms that had come to him and journeyed to Chicago, where he put all into the hands...
Died. Willard L. Velie, 32, of Moline, Ill., acting president of Velie Motor Corp., son of the late president W.L. Velie who died last October; of heart disease; in Moline...