Word: invaliding
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When he was married in 1937 (to Lady Elizabeth Percy, daughter of a house whose quarrels with the Douglases and the Hamiltons were the subject of many a bloody Scottish ballad) chit-chat writers recalled tales of his eccentric invalid father and his mother, who, by report, loved animals so much that she sometimes identified herself with birds...
...cigaret factory. Now factory and fortune belonged to the Standard Tobacco Company. Asa still had a job with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed a heart ailment that enabled her to wield an invalid power that she had never known in healthier days. Asa's conscience is her slave. Sometimes he succeeds in sneaking off to spend Sunday with Kate Oliver on her river farm. His hope is that some day Uncle William will die and leave Lavinia a legacy. When that happened...
Vesicants are the most efficient. They burn flesh. They stick to ground surfaces for weeks under ideal conditions, penetrate clothing, give almost no warning of their presence. They are seldom fatal, but in warfare an invalid needs more care than a corpse. Mustard gas is the most famous of the vesicants. Whereas in World War I sternutators caused one casualty for every 650 pounds of gas used, and lung injurants one per 230 pounds, blister gas was much more efficient: one per 60 pounds. There are no certain defenses against it except reprisal. But it is not the easiest...
Other grievances are the food and medical service for men who are confined to their rooms when Stillman is overflowing. The Hygiene Department has found that the invalid at home takes a great deal longer to recuperate than the one who is treated in the infirmary...
Domenikos Theotokopoulos didn't like the Inquisition. But he was a devout Catholic, and Toledo's faded, invalid nobles, Quixotic bishops and hagridden monks were pigments for his palette. Himself a mystic, he painted the tortured, visionary aspirations of his subjects, seared the flesh further from their hollow cheeks, elongated their bodies till they looked like trembling candle flames, lit like flickering shadows in the glow of the Inquisition. The best painter in all Spain, Theotokopoulos became wealthy, got himself a 24-room palace, a beautiful wife named Doña Jerónima de las Cuevas...