Word: ills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camp in Magnetawan, Ont., discussing anything under the sun with his wife Mary, listening to prize fight broadcasts with his son-in-law, Professor Benjamin Meritt of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Kirkland crotchets include a dislike of bond salesmen and newspapermen, refusal to improve his ill-fitting false teeth, a fondness for maxims like: "I don't have time to make up anyone's mind...
...parties. She had her first adventure (a White House reception) when she was seven, but life did not get continuously exciting till 1919, when she went to Washington as a Senator's wife (Rep., N. H.) and the mother of three sons. In spite of the handicaps of ill health, a small apartment, not much money, few friends and "a husband who groaned at the mere mention of giving or going to a party," Mrs. Keyes was soon having as much fun as she could stand. "It was not infrequent for me to pledge myself for luncheon engagements...
...with the situations he is to face, and today these situations lost intellectual capacity as well as character. Courage and integrity are as essential as ever but they have need of powerful allies. Unless a man's character is steadied by a philosophic appreciation of the past, he is ill equipped to meet the future...
...Russian is Major Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky, who lost a leg for Russia while flying in the War, has lately zoomed into military importance by producing what is generally regarded as the world's fastest pursuit plane. Last week he flew his chunky ship from Belleville, Ill. to Dayton, Ohio at an average speed of 321 m.p.h. Other prominent Russian designers...
Last week Director Palmer lay ill at St. John's Hospital in Springfield. Plan was to have Governor Horner honor his victory by signing the bill at his bedside...