Word: invalides
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...Henry, Norman does his best to be a businesslike copy of Ezra. House Jameson, who plays Father Aldrich, coaches the new Henry out from behind every eight ball. It is worth it. For in Norman The Aldrich Family has a safely deferred Henry (he supports elderly and semi-invalid parents...
...grace to refuse to describe over and over again the misery and pangs that belong to me alone. Strengthen in me the desire to get well, that I may not even be tempted to live in the pity and sympathy that is expected to be extended to an invalid. May I remember continually that pains in nerves are multiplied by pains in description. Amen...
...prisoners seek to have their trial transferred from a military commission created by President Roosevelt to civil courts. They contend the President is not empowered to deny them civil liberties and that the military commission is unconstitutional and invalid...
...meantime, Sammy is going about his business, planting, weeding and mowing, helping his friends with their new problems, worrying that his invalid mother might not be able to bear the strain of either being parted from her family or leaving her home. Nevertheless he is packed and ready; he will do willingly whatever is necessary and buy a war bond, too, when he gets over his confusion and resentment...
Died. Carolyn Wells, wholesale thriller manufacturer (81 mysteries in 33 years); of heart disease; in Manhattan. She had been writing juveniles and highly popular nonsense verse for some ten years before she turned her hand to detective fiction in 1909. A semi-invalid, she was once given only two years to live, prepared herself for the end by ordering a chiffon gown and cocktail jacket as her deathbed costume, then lived ten years and wrote more than 25 more books...