Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JOHN C. MACMAHON Maywood, Ill...
...discovered to the amazement of the official whose duty it was to interview him, that he had come to tell the King's doctors that they were dealing with the case on a hopelessly wrong diagnosis. The King, he told the official, was suffering from the ill effects of his accident during the War when he was thrown from his horse, and nothing would do but that His Majesty must be treated with a certain type of embrocation, generally used for bruised limbs after a hard day in the hunting field, and which is incidentally nationally advertised...
...Ever since it was realized by the British public that the king was seriously ill Buckingham Palace has been literally inundated with patent medicines and bottles containing unguents made from hundred-year-old recipes sent by well-wishers for His Majesty's recovery. . . . There are phials containing green, red, and yellow liquids; there are chest pastes made from fruits and flour, there are unguents of crushed ginger and honey which have been handed down in recipe from generation to generation, and there is a whole drawer full of protective amulets sent by villagers from nearly every county in the country...
...they spoiled? . . . When they are ill, they have to go to hospital, to get the care that an ordinary Englishwoman . . . would get from her servant as a matter of course. . . . There are many towns in America without one single, solitary servant, towns where all the women have to do their own housework, cooking, most of the washing, and usually the gardening...
...straying husband returns to see his young son who he has learned is ill. Young son's illness is slight, and between father and son there is more talk about a bicycle, approval of which Mary Boyd has withheld. With Christine turned moral and Mary refusing to marry Boyd's best friend?and Cecily eloping with her architect?the play ends in this manner...