Word: invalided
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...speaker emphasized the extreme vitality of the poet, evident in her writings as well as in her life. In presence of mind and courage she was the female counterpart of President Roosevelt, and her strength of spirit was most evident when she was an invalid in the latter years of her life while producing her authoritative work on Keats. These years were very tragic for her but she made the best of them. Her influence as a critic should not be overlooked, he added...
...young woman deposed herself to be Fru Else Wille Bang, 32, not domiciled with her husband since seven months after her marriage, for a period (after the separation) a student of singing in Paris, now of no occupation. She wished to impeach herself for the murder of her invalid mother, the Baroness von Dueben, and at the same time arrange for exculpation...
Denmark was startled by so naïve a culpa mea. The astounded magistrate asked for particulars. These, as Fru Bang stated them for record, caused discussion all over the world. For, like the young man who shot his invalid mother in France (TIME. Nov. 18, 1929), Fru Bang poisoned her invalid mother for mercy to her body. But unlike the young man, to whom God was "only a religious belief," she was concerned with the salvation of her mother's soul. The baroness' ailment, the two women believed, was incurable. Her suffering, they perceived, was unbearable...
...promptly resigned his minor post in the Government (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) in protest. Miss Megan Lloyd George M. P. (loyal daughter) began her campaign for re-election with this shrill cry: "I shall fight on as a Liberal?under the same leader?Lloyd George!" Invalid Lloyd George himself called Labor Leader Henderson to his bedside at Churt. They talked for an hour, presumably about joining forces, have long been expected...
...they agonize together over a world that was not molded very near to their hearts' desire. For a while it looks as though everything would go badly for everybody. Pauline tries to break off her affair with Julian's father when she has to take her own invalid parent to Switzerland. Prying grown-ups catch Julian and Hildegarde taking a perfectly innocent sun bath after a swim. Hilclegarde's mother whisks her abroad; Julian in sick despair drives his rickety old motorbike over a cliff, tries to make it look like an accident. That clears...