Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators, Congressmen, editors, lawyers, leaders in every field vied to heap the highest praise upon the infirm old gentleman who lives in a red brick house on a Washington side street. To this outpouring, however, he paid no heed. Only when his eight colleagues on the court wrote him a solemn letter of farewell did he publicly reply...
...slow, soft breathing of 250 infirm old men and women asleep one night last week in the Pittsburgh dormitories of the Little Sisters of the Poor suddenly broke off into gags, coughs, smoke-stifled cries. Fire billowed up through the peaked roof of the Catholic home. Its glare lighted wrinkled faces twisted with fear and despair. Crippled old men thumped their canes on the floor for help. Aged women forgot their slippers and wrappers as the black-robed nuns herded them into a crawling, shuffling line down the rickety fire escapes. Querulous prayers rose in the darkness to blend with...
Albert Bacon Fall, 69, infirm, bribe-convicted (at liberty under bond) Harding Secretary of the Interior, applied to the U. S. for a Spanish War pension in recognition of his service as Captain of Company H, 1st Volunteers, Territorial Infantry. Mr. Fall is in serious financial straits: his New Mexico ranch was lately sold to meet creditors' claims; the U. S. is trying to collect $235,325 back income taxes from him. If his application is pension-worthy he will receive, per month: at most. $72; at least, $40, according to disabilities proven...
Next morning Dr. Work gave political punsters a chance to refer to logrolling when he stepped on an infirm tree bole, was twirled upside down and doused in the cold stream...
...favor of disposing of all captured whiskey as follows: Meeting the requirements of the sheriff and his deputies, the remainder to be turned over to the aged and infirm at the county home...