Word: invaliding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the S. S. George Washington hove into New York Harbor three weeks ago, an old lady sat bundled in an invalid's chair on board and an ambulance was waiting on the pier. Because she was indisposed and because she was Mrs. Lily Anheuser Busch, 85-year-old widow of the late Brewer Adolphus Busch of St. Louis, the old lady had "the courtesy of the port." Comptroller-of-the-Port Arthur F. Forran had furnished her with an "expedite" permit, so that she might escape the tedium of waiting while inspectors inspected 34 pieces of luggage belonging...
Ludlow, Vt., home of U. S. Attorney John Garibaldi Sargent, eleven miles from Montpelier, was completely submerged. Mrs. Sargent escaped injury. The Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt., was not reached by the waters but not far away, Pauline Hall, an invalid, was caught by the cloudburst and marooned in an automobile. She died...
Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont of Delaware, last week invalid at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, has had his vocal cords cut out. But he will be able to speak by means of a mechanical larynx...
...This approximates the idea of incarnation included in the theosophical melange of beliefs. Mrs. Eddy had a son, George W. Glover, by her first husband. When the boy was nine years old, she was invalid and unable to prevent his being sent to the west by Dr. Patterson, her second husband. Thirty years later she met her son. He was a worldling, father of a family, unamenable to her teachings. Christian Scientists profess not to know his later history. If living, he is now 83 years...
...this description is The Mallets. The Mallets are four single ladies?Caroline, Sophia, Rose, and Henrietta. The first three are of the older generation, Rose being our heroine. She discovers her love for Hero Francis Sales only after he has married another girl. When Mrs. Sales becomes an invalid after a hunting accident, Rose does not let the fact that she was per-haps a little to blame for the mishap interfere with a pure but clandestine love affair with Francis. Henrietta, Rose's pert niece, also likes Francis, but finds after experimenting with him that she likes Charles Batty...