Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financial embarrassment with which all Dance Committees are faced, and the further fact that social fare palatable to the most diverse tastes is rather abundant, and the reason for attempting to sustain the breath of life in a superannuated whiff from the gay nineties seems to be ill founded. (Name withheld by request...
...dance and that its success would be assured by transference of the festivity to an up-to-date Boston ballroom. The class officers could petition for such a radical change of the character of the dance, but in the opinion of the CRIMSON it would be an ill-advised petition having one chance out of a hundred of being approved by the college authorities. To state the case coldly, if impropriety can be charged against a dance held in Memorial Hall, it is doubtful if a Boston hotel or nightclub locale would enhance its prestige. This is only one reason...
...must to all men, death came, last week, to His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch of Russia, 72. at Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera, where he lay ill of pneumonia (TIME...
Word of her arrival was kept from Brother Bramwell at first. Physicians who had cared for him for two years, ill with nervous collapse and enfeebled by his 72 strenuous years, said he could not stand the shock. But finally, fearing lest the moil and ferment at international headquarters should come in some more violent manner to his ears, his wife and his daughter, Commissioner Catherine Booth, gently informed...
Pilot Becker, ill, was quarantined in Port-au-Prince. The rest went to Panama, inspected submarine bases, game preserves, laboratories, spied on the canal from the sky. After ten days Pilot Becker, convalescent, joined his companions in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He flew from Port-au-Prince in 90 minutes. The others motored the same distance in nine hours. At the capitol they were wined and dined by President Horacio Vasquez. Later Daughter Alicia went bathing, kicked a sea porcupine which retaliated with a dozen barbs to the foot. A native Indian shaman extracted most of them with...