Word: ills
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tended his bees or simply sat staring out the windows in his study. When heavy rains recently washed out the telephone line that linked his house to the outside world, the poet breathed a sigh of relief. One day last week, when her 86-year-old husband felt suddenly ill, Countess Maeterlinck had to run to neighbors to phone for a doctor. The call was too late...
...Consideration. In a moment of ill-advised generosity, France's Chamber of Deputies voted to up the concierge's wages by 300%. Thrifty Parisian landlords were sacking their watchdogs right & left. By last week, some 6,000 had lost their jobs...
...most rewarding features of that traditionally ill-paid calling sports writing is the fine location from which its practicioners are permitted to observe any event from football to billiards. And of all sports where this custom comes in handy, crew is foremost...
Once before, the Star had done something like that. In 1938, when General John J. Pershing was critically ill in Tucson, the Star had minimized his illness in a special edition of one copy printed for him every day. Last week the Star printed a one-copy edition for Barbara. Said the special story: "Barbara is getting along just fine. She's going to be all right before long." In the Star's regular edition, the rest of Tucson was let in on the secret...
Quibbling Oldsters. Aubrey loved the medieval manor house, half dwelling, half barnyard, where the cackling and lowing of livestock were "then thought not . . . ill musique." But, unlike most antiquarians, he never allowed nostalgia to blind him to the bad aspects of the good old days: "The conversation and habits of those times were as starcht as their bands and square beards; and gravity was then taken for wisdom. The doctors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles past for wit even in their sermons...