Word: invalides
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Near Bourges, France, a wild boar, hunters after him, dashed down the street of the village of Grand Mallery, scrambled through a doorway, through a hall, into a room where lay, as he had lain for months, an invalid. This invalid screamed, arose, leapt out of the window. The hunters came, killed the boar; the sick man returned to work...
...YOUNG COMPANION wanted for invalid wife. Tel. for appointment Univ...
...machinery of government is often halted while the chief executive of the State lays a corner stone; but it is very seldom that a busy governor can spare ten minutes of the people's time to write a personal letter of encouragement to a small and unknown invalid. That is what Governor Fuller has done, however, and it is safe to say that little Eddie O'Neil of Attleboro will treasure till his dying hour the card and note that reached him on his fifth birthday...
...thus have prevailing in the United States a system of laws which allows of parties being divorced in one state but not in another; of a marriage being valid in one state but invalid elsewhere; of a child being a lawful heir in one and illegitimate in another; and of a man, not a Mormon, having two legal wives, changing one or the other according as he moves from one state to another, and which as we have seen, operates to make those entirely innocent the principle sufferers...
Another major decision of the Council was to abolish dual commandership in the Army. Hitherto, each com-mander had attached to him a political commissar, or "archangel," as Comrade Krylenko, onetime Chief Com-mander of the Russian forces, called them. An order of a commander was invalid until countersigned by the commissar ; but such is the state of things in Russia that the Moscow autocrats can now trust their officers and are, incidently, enabled to raise their...