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...Horse) who lost a leg in Mesopotamia in World War I, opened his first distillery with another one-legged veteran and, as his business prospered, gave away more than ?1,000,000 to British universities, zoos, hospitals and the Wine and Spirit Trade Benevolent Society; after years as an invalid; in Cove, Scotland...
...week in support money via the clerk of the magistrates' court in Rhyl. Quite right, confirmed the clerk; since 1940 he had handled $5,877 on her behalf. But, he added, for many years the person who had come to pick it up was not the invalid Frances Knight, but her landlady, Sarah Jane Harvey. Almost every week for 20 years, said the clerk. Mrs. Harvey was asked: "How is Mrs. Knight?" The usual answer: "About the same." When the money was late, she protested that Mrs. Knight would "play hell," and sometimes at Christmas Mrs. Harvey would...
...this reason, most of Goldwater's rank and file support comes from the South, where any fool knows that strict construction means that the 1954 desegregation decision is invalid. On the integration issue, in fact, Goldwater goes even further, explicitly questioning whether the Supreme Court's decision is even to be considered "the law of the land...
...Notably Sixtus V, a Franciscan famed for his rages, who in 1585 managed to get himself elected (legend has it) by pretending to be an invalid, thereby giving his rivals in the conclave the impression that he would not last long as Pope. As soon as the winning vote was counted, he picked up the stick over which he had been crouching and hurled it as far as he could, then began intoning the Te Deum so loudly that the Vatican is said to have trembled-not to mention the cardinals. He reigned for five years...
...department's first finds was an invalid's food called Sustagen. A mix of skim-milk powder, soybean flour, corn oil, minerals and vitamins, Sustagen was designed for hospital patients unable to eat solid foods. It worked so well at giving patients the illusion of having eaten a solid meal and killing off between-meal hunger pangs that last year Mead Johnson decided to call it Metrecal and put it out as a weight-reducing food. The chief change was to recommend a limit of 900 calories (i.e., one 8-oz. can, dry weight) of Metrecal...