Word: invalides
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Lord Cave. Lying invalid in his Somersetshire home of Burnham-on-Sea, George Viscount Cave, 72, felt his strength definitely impaired, last week, and executed in good time his resignation as Lord High Chancellor. The incumbent of this office is the highest civil subject in the land outside the royal family. He keeps the King's conscience, sits on the Woolsack as Speaker of the House of Lords, surmounts the pyramid of English judges, partakes of membership in the Cabinet, and performs such chores as standing guardian of all infants and lunatics...
...Throughout White Russia and the Polish Ukraine the police, acting apparently upon orders from Warsaw, declared invalid, for no valid reason, a majority of the party lists submitted in opposition to Sanatzia...
Last week, however, New Yorkers scowled at their Mayor when his invalid stomach was taken as a temperance text by Dr. Christian F. Reisner of the Chelsea Methodist Episcopal Church. With Mayor Walker's knowledge and permission, Dr. Reisner reported from his pulpit, and applauded, the following statement by Mayor Walker: "I drink neither champagne nor alcohol in any form, nor have I since last September. My health is very much better without it. Then, too, while I enjoyed the exhilarating high spots from alcoholic stimulants, the low spots of the next morning collected a heavy toll...
...small room in an English country house, famed Author Thomas Hardy lay sick in bed. Frail, 87, a little querulous in his talk, he still seemed unaccustomed to this invalid ease, the result of a chill he lad caught a month before. His hands, as thin and brown as claws, played nervously with the edge of his quilt. James Barrie came to talk to him; Hardy's peaked mournful face was turned sideways on its pillow, his voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected...
...next episode is something very different. In Raona, "that ancient Mediterranean town on a cliff ledge half way to the sky," Claire Ambler met an invalid whose gallantries on a battlefield more severe than that of love permitted him to anticipate only one bravery more. Charles Orbison, waiting, in the warm sun, for death to reward him for the wounds he had suffered in the War, saw Claire Ambler and heard her sing once, beautifully and out of a rare simplicity. Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries...