Word: invaliding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange career: in politics a swift climax and a slow diminuendo; in religion a growing autserity; and a sudden termination. His invalid wife sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...
TIME is frank with itself; TIME is likewise frank with its readers. Frankness breeds discontent at times; discontent brings complaint, sometimes valid, more often invalid. TIME, in its unique way, says things at times that hit home with a bang-its criticisms are harsh -its adjectives ever are pointed as daggers- it portrays the world a bit cynically yet interestingly-it sees good in some, bad in others, worse in a few, and in so doing pacifies the thinker and makes the gullible thing. That is a mighty achievement; certainly it should overshadow the minor errors that too often arouse...
...Year to Live. You can feel fairly certain after scrutinizing this title that, in the end, she finds that the "one year to live" decision is reversed to allow her marriage and the happy ever-afterward. Before this, she was a dancer's maid; supported her invalid sister, became a dancer; warded off seduction by the wicked theatre man. It is pretty bad, even as these things go, notwithstanding the presence of Dorothy Mackaill, Antonio Moreno, Rosemary Theby, Aileen Pringle and Joseph Kilgour...
...Bryan, an invalid, will accompany the pilgrims, being carried from place to place on a stretcher...
...Manhattan, the Rev. Dr. Arthur B. Churchman, invalid preacher, who speaks from a wheel chair at the Bethany Memorial Reformed Church, distributed glasses of chilled water to his congregation, announced that this practice would be continued throughout the summer Sabbaths, during the hymns. Growing plants in pots will be placed at the end of each pew, that those who cannot drain their tumblers may have a place to deposit the residue. "There'll be no dry sermons here !" cried the Rev. Mr. Churchman...